Zgodovina

Obstajajo tri vrste zgodovine: 1. Kar se je zares zgodilo – to je za vedno izgubljeno. 2. Kar večina ljudi misli, da se je zgodilo – to lahko z veliko truda celo izvemo. 3. Kar želijo ljudje na oblasti, da bi prihodnji rodovi mislili, da se je zgodilo – to je zapisano v zgodovinskih knjigah in učbenikih.

There are three kinds of history: The fist is what really happened, and that is forever lost. The second is what most  people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened, and that is 90% of the history in books.

Michael Gruber, The book of Air and Shadows, pg. 111