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Nature of history15 quotes
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1832The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. — Willa Cather · 1913In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. — Harry Lime · 1949In historical events great men-so called-are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels they have the least possible connection with the event itself. — Leo Tolstoy · 1869History, we know, is apt to repeat itself. — George Eliot · 1857What I did that was new was to prove... That the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat. — Karl Marx · 1852All 15 quotes →History10 quotes
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. — Willa Cather · 1913In historical events great men-so called-are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels they have the least possible connection with the event itself. — Leo Tolstoy · 1869History, we know, is apt to repeat itself. — George Eliot · 1857What I did that was new was to prove... That the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat. — Karl Marx · 1852Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave. — H.A.L. Fisher · 1935History...is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — Edward Gibbon · 1776All 10 quotes →America1 quote
America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it. America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy. — Samuel Eliot Morison · 1965Class conflict1 quote
What I did that was new was to prove... That the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat. — Karl Marx · 1852Communism1 quote
What I did that was new was to prove... That the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat. — Karl Marx · 1852Great man theory of history1 quote
In historical events great men-so called-are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels they have the least possible connection with the event itself. — Leo Tolstoy · 1869Inevitability of progress1 quote
Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns. — Alfred Tennyson · 1842Intellectual progress1 quote
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1832Nations1 quote
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. — Willa Cather · 1913Progress1 quote
Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns. — Alfred Tennyson · 1842