The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
History Quotes
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
Reason creates science; sentiments and creeds shape history.
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.
Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.
Blest is the Nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
(History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom.
