It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150years ago, perhaps ….

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living..

Kings are the slaves of history..

We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of the effects of scientif….

The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense..

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with in….

History at its best is vicarious experience..

Not a stone but has its history..

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful..

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious..

Hitler's oratory moved people and appealed to their hopes and dreams. But his speeches malevolently twisted hope into some gnarled ghastly entities, ….

[Read] anything but history,.. for history must be false..

This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left..

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through ….

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it..

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest..

We are all citizens of history..

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?.

If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives;….