Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
History is history.
History is, of course, a made thing. It does not exist by itself in anything like a recognizable form.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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 the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.
History is history. What is done is done.
In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.