"Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past."
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"History paints the human heart."
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"History, sir, will tell lies as usual."
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"History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird."
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"It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence."
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"The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death."
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"We cannot escape history."
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"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom."
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"Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence."
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"Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory."
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"Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work."
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"We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm."
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"The greatest man in history was the poorest."
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"A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable."
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"With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality."
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"The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it."
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"The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!"
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"If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason."
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"History only exists, in the final analysis, for God."
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"Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism."
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