Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday.
History is more or less bunk.
The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.
History is so comprehensive and detailed. I couldn't be a history student. I thought there was a time when I couldn't be a history maker, because of my limited understanding of what that meant. Today,...
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
History is: Fables agreed upon - Voltaire The biography of a few stout and earnest persons - Ralph Waldo Emerson A vast Mississippi of falsehood - Matthew Arnold A confused heap of facts - Lord Cheste...
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy and it always feels uncomfortable.
The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History and exp...
The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabia...
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
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