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"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought - two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement." Ralph Waldo Emerson 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." George Bernard Shaw 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings." Edward Gibbon 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable." Thomas Jefferson 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"History, in general, only informs us what bad government is." Thomas Jefferson 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in." John Greenleaf Whittier 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism?" Ayn Rand 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." Karl Marx 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power." Albert Camus 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"History only exists, in the final analysis, for God." Albert Camus 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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