Quote of Anatole France - History books that contain no lies...
Biography - Anatole France:
French poet, journalist and novelist.
Born: 1844 - Died: 1924
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1844 - Died: 1924
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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Quotes about history:
What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Quotes for: book
Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.
Quotes about lie:
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
The first and fundamental resistance is that of the spirit. It means resisting the intimidation of any lie asserted as truth, the contagion of any collective intoxication.
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