History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
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Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
History is, of course, a made thing. It does not exist by itself in anything like a recognizable form.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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