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Immanuel Kant | History Quotes
Immanuel Kant was the first hippie in history.
Alexander Pope
Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.
Plutarch
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.




Plutarch
These are the materials for reflection which history affords to those who choose to make use of them.
Alexis de Tocqueville
History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.
It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
Derren Brown
The greatest dinner party guest in history…or the scariest man in Britain – The Guardian
Wystan Hugh Auden
Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one.
Friedrich von Schiller
World history is the world's court.
Joseph Stalin
History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.
Conor Oberst | History Quotes
As they take eye for an eye until no one can see,
we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history.




Willa Cather
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
Arthur C. Clarke
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Richard Nixon
The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
Isaac Asimov | History Quotes
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A page of history is worth a volume of logic.
Frank Zappa
The things that were happening in 1955 were cosmic ... in terms of music history.
Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Franz Kafka
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.


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