Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
History is but the polemics of the victor.
In a certain sense all men are historians.
I endeavor to make the most of everything.
History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
History is a means of access to ourselves.
No historian should be trusted implicitly.
Less is more, in prose as in architecture.
History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.
We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.
History begins in novel and ends in essay.
History is a pageant and not a philosophy.
Nothing falsifies history more than logic.
The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.
The morality of art is in its very beauty.
Some creatures are made to see in the dark.
You either make money, or you make history.
We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?
[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
History is like a constantly changing tree.
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
History must stay open, it is all humanity.
History is no more than memories refreshed.
The history of mankind is a history of war.
All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
The past is always a rebuke to the present.
Men make history, not the other way around.
History is the shank of the social sciences.
History at its best is vicarious experience.
History is a myth that men agree to believe.
I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.
The greatest man in history was the poorest.
But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
The highest condition of art is artlessness.
History is, indeed, an argument without end.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
I have no history but the length of my bones.
History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.
There is no history of how bad became better.
The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
There is properly no history, only biography.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
Now is history as fast as the mind remembers.
Most of our people have never had it so good.
Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.