history Quotes

“The History of the World, I said already, was the Biography of Great Men.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

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“History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:life history existence

“Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history, such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.”

― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

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“peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History

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“I wasn't interested in world history, only my own.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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“She had always been fond of history, and here was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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“History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion—i.e., none to speak of.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

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“there are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

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“The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.”

― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

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“There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

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