Every day grows more amnesiac about its recent past.
somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.
But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.
All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.
A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.
Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories
History has been the history of warfare.
History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme
Human rights takes history out of justice.
Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.
One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser. ' I had to tell him, 'No, that's my record - and it doesn't include my juvenile history. '
The introduction of the Christian religion into the world has produced an incalculable change in history. There had previously been only a history of nations--there is now a history of mankind; and the idea of an education of human nature as a whole. --an education the work of Jesus Christ Himself--is become like a compass for the historian, the key of history, and the hope of nations.
In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1. 5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.
The scientific observer of the realm of nature is in a sense naturally and inevitably disinterested. At least, nothing in the natural scene can arouse his bias. Furthermore, he stands completely outside of the natural so that his mind, whatever his limitations, approximates pure mind. The observer of the realm of history cannot be disinterested in the same way, for two reasons: first, he must look at history from some locus in history; secondly, he is to a certain degree engaged in its ideological conflicts.
The historian amputates reality.
If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.
I endeavor to make the most of everything.
We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.