History Quotes

"Every thought carries the imprint of the historical and social world in which it arises."

"History is not external to consciousness but constitutive of how we experience the present."

"History is the science of what has been; but the knowledge of causes and effects in the past enables us to understand the present and foresee the future."

"Every person carries within them the whole history of humanity."

"The human person is fundamentally a historical being."

"History teaches us that change is the only constant."

"Man's earliest history is also the history of religion."

"History is the record of human striving."

"The dead govern the living."

"Knowledge of the past is the key to understanding the present."

"The study of history teaches us practical wisdom."

"History shows us that human nature is capable of infinite improvement."

"We should do a better job of putting ourselves in the historical position of the people of the past."

"The world we have inherited is not the product of what men have consciously desired; it has been built up by unconscious forces."

"Civilization is the development from military tyranny to industrial freedom."

"Every social institution is an adaptation to environmental conditions."

"History is the realization of human consciousness."

"Madness in individuals is something rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

"To a certain point, the worse government is more instructive than the better."

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."

"Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself."

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgets to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."

"The contradiction between the forces of production and relations of production creates the dynamic of history."

"History is not determined but shaped by human action."

"To understand history is to understand ourselves."

"History teaches not what will happen but what could happen."

"Custom is the most powerful of laws."

"The human race has not progressed because it has accepted the principles that all men are born equal."

"History is the testimony of human struggle against the forces of limitation."

"The stage of history is where humanity writes its eternal story."