History Quotes
Let us strive for the impossible. The great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed the impossible.
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.
Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.
Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained.
The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.
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