History quotes

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

History takes time. History makes memory.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

While we read history we make history.

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another.

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.