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History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

While we read history we make history.

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.