The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.
The key to why things change is the key to everything.
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.
Everything changes but change.
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
The more things change, the more they are the same.