[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick. – Max Nordau, The Interpretation of History
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Without philosophy, history seems to me to be deaf and dumb. – Ferdinand Baur, Symbolik und Mythologic
Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History? – Charles de Gaulle
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. – George Santayana
But in its final creation it was not the part of the Fathers power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel. – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most – that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least. – Eugene V. Debs
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