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- Nov 07, 2020
History Quotes
Personal history and the record we leave.
Quotes about "history" here move between the personal and the public — early museum visits that shaped a scientific mindset, and a family history full of preachers and former priests. For enduring, timeless sayings, see Long quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hegel
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.
- Creeds
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
- Competitors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
- Documentary Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
- Push
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes - history needs a push.
- Mankind
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- Nov 07, 2020