History Quotes

"Names function as bridges between linguistic communities and objects in the external world across time."

"History repeats itself because we fail to learn its lessons."

"History is the history of transcendental consciousness."

"Culture is sedimented consciousness."

"Authentic temporality grounds authentic historicity."

"Historicity means the character of historical happening."

"Historical being means being-sent, having a mission."

"The world in due time adjusts itself to an idea whose time has come."

"History is the science of what has been."

"Man can only understand man through history."

"The greatest historians are those who understand the human heart."

"The past lives within us."

"We are historical beings."

"The past illuminates the present."

"The study of history is the study of ourselves."

"Memory binds us to our past."

"History teaches compassion."

"The past is never truly past."

"The genius of history lies in its humanity."

"The individual life contains all of history."

"History is the memory of humanity."

"History is the teacher of nations."

"The history of philosophy shows us what happens when language is allowed to run wild."

"We honor the past by understanding it clearly, not by accepting it uncritically."

"Our civilization is characterized by the word progress."

"All that we call human history—is the history of the struggle for recognition."

"The evolution of human thought will not be completed in the twentieth century."

"Human history in one perspective is the recital of the gradual discovery of all the laws of nature."

"History is not merely what has passed; it is what is coming toward us."

"Authentic historicality emerges when we own our past and future together."