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History
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.”
Oscar Wilde
-
The Picture of Dorian Gray
History
Human nature
laughter
What experience and history teach is this — that people 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
experience
History
to learn
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.”
George Bernard Shaw
History
Man
to learn
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”
Aristotle
History
poetry
World history is the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
freedom
History
progress
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”
George Bernard Shaw
experience
History
to learn
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.”
Victor Hugo
future
History
past
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities—perhaps the only one — in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there.”
Karl Popper
History
mistake
progress
science
to learn
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
Nature
History
poetry
truth
When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?”
Nelson Mandela
History
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
Paulo Coelho
History
world
History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.”
Voltaire
-
L'Ingénu
History
The history of philosophical system is the picture gallery of reason.”
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
History
philosophy
reason
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.”
Theodor W. Adorno
History
Language
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.”
Anatole France
book
History
lie
Man is not entirely to blame; it was not he who started history; nor is he entirely innocent, since he continues it.”
Albert Camus
-
L'Été
History
Man
History, which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.”
Edward Gibbon
History
Human nature
What history relates is only the long, heavy, confused dream of humanity.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
-
The World as Will and Representation
dream
History
Human nature
The separation of history from geography rests upon the separation of time from space.”
Bertrand Russell
History
space
time
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
Virginia Woolf
History
Woman
The history of the world is the world's court of justice.”
Friedrich Schiller
History
world
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?”
Carl Gustav Jung
History
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.”
Nicolas Chamfort
History
love
History should be written as philosophy.”
Voltaire
History
philosophy
Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
History
poetry
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
Gustave Flaubert
History
ignorance
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.”
Martin Heidegger
History
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.”
Paul Valéry
absurd
History
thought
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.”
Albert Camus
History
sun
Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.”
Martin Heidegger
History
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