History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
History is history. What is done is done.
History is, of course, a made thing. It does not exist by itself in anything like a recognizable form.
History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
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