Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.
We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
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.
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.