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~ 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. ~
~ But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding. ~
~ 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. ~
~ The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies. ~
~ History is the narrative of great actions with praise or blame. ~
~ [History is] the doubtful story of successive events. ~
~ If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons. ~
~ History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions. ~
~ At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself. ~
~ [History is a] costly and superfluous luxury of the understanding. ~
~ The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom. ~
~ 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. ~
~ History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause. ~
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