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Quote by Hippolyte Taine
History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psycholog

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology. – Hippolyte Taine

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I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. – Hippolyte Taine

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Ideas shape the course of history. – John Maynard Keynes

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No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time. – Earl R. Beck, On Teaching History in Colleges and Universities

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History is a bath of blood. – William James, Memories and Studies

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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce

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