History is, of course, a made thing. It does not exist by itself in anything like a recognizable form.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
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.
Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
History is history. What is done is done.
History is history.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.