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History is the science of what never happens twice.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

In mass societies, myth takes the place of history.
 share this History saying   William Bosenbrook

History is a great dust heap.

Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.

Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.
 share this History saying   David Shannon

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.
 share this History saying   Marc Bloch

History, by appraising. ..[the students] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.
 share this History saying   Lord Acton

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.
 share this History saying   James Bryce

History is the narrative of great actions with praise or blame.
 share this History saying   Cotton Mather

[History is] the doubtful story of successive events.
 share this History saying   Bosanquet

If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.
 share this History saying   Lucien Febvre

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
 share this History saying   Lord Acton

At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.
 share this History saying   E. P. Thompson

[History is a] costly and superfluous luxury of the understanding.
 share this History saying   Nietzsche

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.
 share this History saying   Hegel

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction. The history of man's ideas is nothing more than the chronicle of human error.
 share this History saying   Voltaire

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.
 share this History saying   Romain Rolland

History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.
 share this History saying   Ernst Troeltsch

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.
 share this History saying   R. G. Collingwood

People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.
 share this History saying   John Andrew Rice

History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.
 share this History saying   Edmund Carpenter

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.
 share this History saying   Hans-Georg Gadamer

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