History Quotes

"History is the progress of freedom in the world."

"History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in the history of nations."

"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."

"Individuals are limited by their historical epoch."

"The cunning of reason works through history."

"Nations are the stages of world-history's self-realization."

"Nothing is new except what has been forgotten"

"The past is a prologue to the future"

"History teaches us that progress is neither inevitable nor permanent."

"To understand history is to recognize that the present is not inevitable."

"The present age is essentially a sensible, reflecting age, devoid of passion."

"The strong of the future will always be determined by the weakness of the past."

"History is the record of human moral progress."

"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."

"Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth."

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice."

"The bourgeoisie has disclosed how it came to its views by the unveiling of America."

"Human activity must be understood as history, not as abstract nature."

"Great men are not born; they are products of their time."

"History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in the history of peoples."

"Regarding history, I think we learn from history that people never learn from history."

"A person without historical consciousness is lost."

"The tragedy of history is that individuals forget their universal role."

"The end of history is the reconciliation of all opposites."

"The development of the individual mirrors the development of history."

"The past influences us through our memories and interpretations of remembered events."

"The study of past errors teaches us more than the study of past successes."

"Nothing is more necessary for the conduct of life than a knowledge of history."

"Nothing is more entertaining than the history of manners and morals."

"History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in the history of peoples."