History Quotes
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I am provoked at the contempt which most historians show for humanity in general; one would think by them, that the whole human species consisted but of about a hundred and fifty people, called and dignified (commonly very undeservedly too) by the titles of Emperors, Kings, Popes, Generals, and Ministers.
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Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.
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In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to what they paid homage. It was noisy, undisciplined, vainglorious; its leader was a half-educated posturing foreigner. For a decade the National Socialists were regarded as hoodlums, as part of the breakdown of what had been, if anything, an excessively ordered society before.
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One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.
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History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.
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In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.
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I decline to accept the end of man.
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Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.
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Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
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History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced
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The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history - its mass appeal.
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History is but the polemics of the victor.
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At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.
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Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.
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Out of the chaos of post-Roman Dark Age Britain, the English had created the world's first nation-state: One king, one country, one church, one currency, one language and a single unified representative national administration. Never again in England would sovereignty descend to the merely regional level. Never again would the idea of England and the unity of England ever be challenged.
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The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.
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If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.
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We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.
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Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.
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The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new Platonists; whilst they exhausted their strength in the verbal disputes of metaphysics, attempted to explore the secrets of the invisible world, and studied to reconcile Aristotle with Plato, on subjects of which both these philosophers were as ignorant as the rest of mankind.
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I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.
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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
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Less is more, in prose as in architecture.
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First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that ofyears ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race.
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The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
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It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.
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Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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