I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age… has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.
History Quotes
It is not the literal past, the ‘facts’ of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
There is properly no history; only biography.
What we may be witnessing is not just the end of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.
The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall – think of it, always.
The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets. He fancies he has a new article. If he go to the factory, he shall find that his new stuff still repeats the scrolls and rosettes which are found on the interior walls of the pyramids of Thebes. […]
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.
