History Quotes

 
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The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power. 

--Albert Camus

 

History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another. 

--Jacob Burckhardt

 

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. 

--Barbara Tuchman

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history. 

--Miguel de Unamuno

 

History is who we are and why we are the way we are. 

--David McCullough

 

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time. 

--Henry Miller

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. 

--James Joyce

 

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God. 

--Albert Camus

 

[History is] petrified imagination. 

--Arthur Baer

 

[History is a] mixture of error and violence. 

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

No less than the tourist, the writer of history profits from maps. 

--Charles F. Mullett

 
 
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