Quotes about History, page 7

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

Quote by Russell Hoban about history

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

Quote by Russell Hoban about history

Virtue alone is free. Honor of our history, Our immortal shame we live beside your glory.

Quote by Joseph Chénier about history

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

Quote by Karl Jaspers about history

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Quote by Karl Marx about history

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

Quote by Hans-Georg Gadamer about history

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Quote by Washington Irving about history

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Quote by Luigi Pirandello about history

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

Quote by Jules Romains about history

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thoughts.

Quote by Etienne Gilson about history

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

Quote by Eugene Victor Debs about history

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

Quote by Martin Scorsese about history

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Quote by Norman Kingsley Mailer about history

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

Quote by Giuseppe Garibaldi about history

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

Quote by Czeslaw Milosz about history

Young people are the ones who make history and only the elders tell it, with more or less talent or wit.

Quote by Mihai Dinu Gheorghiu about history

I don't exist not so much throuth the history of life and career, but and especially throughj my books.

Quote by Nicolae Breban about history

In fact, what exactly defines a life: submission to a predictable fate or the inventing, at any cost, of our own destiny? Where are beginning the mystification, cynicism, and betrayal, and where is ending up the dream, candor and duplicity?...

Quote by Constantin Stoiciu about history

In the history of Earth man has not browsed a day until the sun faded.

Quote by Marius Torok about history

History should be, for us, an endless spring of healthy poetry, a series of holy icons from where we may obtain always teaching of truth and virtue blast. Infinite column. The modern Romanian thinking

Quote by Ion Luca Caragiale about history