The main thing is to make history, not to write it. – Otto von Bismarck

God cannot alter the past, though historians can. – Samuel Butler, “Prose Observations”

Then, Sir, you would reduce all history to no better than an almanack, a mere chronological series of remarkable events. – James Boswell, 1775

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity. – Robert Anton Wilson