Quotes About History

To truly "learn" history means to open your eyes and discover the forces that cause historical events to happen. The art of reading and of learning means remembering the important parts and forgetting the unimportant.

A man who is indifferent to history is a man without hearing, without sight. Such a man can live, of course - but what a life?

The Jewish Question? Thats a hell of a thing to ask!

To this group belong not only the genuinely great statesmen but all the great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great we have men such as Martin Luther and Richard Wagner.

Minority not majority makes world history, Not the majority will save Germany. Not the dictatorship of the Jews, but the dictatorahip of genius.

It is sobering to think on how thin a thread of fate the history of the world sometimes depends!

There is no novel of world history, which is more wonderful than our party's development to its present greatness. Speech of March 20, 1934 in Munich

There is no fear that modern works of real value will look pale and worthless beside the monuments of the past. That which is contributed to the general store of human culture often fulfills a necessary role, in order to keep the memory of old achievements alive, because this memory alone is the standard whereby our own works are properly appreciated.

EÄŸer Yahudi Marksizm'le bir zafer kazan?rsa ba??na giyeceÄŸi taç, insanl???n cenaze tac? olacakt?r, iÅŸte o zaman dünya, milyonlarca y?l önce olduÄŸu gibi boÅŸlukta üzerinde bir tek insan kalmadan dönecektir.

The man of genius in tune with nature will bend history to his will. (1920)

First, I became a nationalist.

One has good grounds to be suspicious of any new idea, any doctrine, any new worldview, or any political or economical movement, that tries to deny everything that the past has produced, or to present it as inferior and worthless... Any renovation that's truly beneficial to human progress will always have to begin its constructive work where the last stones have been laid.

Few teachers realize that the purpose of teaching history is not the memorizing of certain dates and facts that the student is not interested in knowing: the exact date of a battle, or the birthday of some marshal or other... To study history means to search for and discover the forces that are the causes of those results that appear to us as historical events.

In this world everything that is not of sound racial stock is like chaff. Every historical event in the world is nothing more nor less than a manifestation of the instinct of racial self-preservation, whether for weal or woe.

Perché non ero nato cent'anni prima? Al tempo della guerra, quando un uomo valeva qualcosa anche se non teneva bottega?

Pochi capiscono che l'insegnamento della storia non consiste nel mandare a memoria e recitare pappagallescamente date e fatti. Studiare la storia significa cercare le forze le quali conducono agli effetti che noi abbiamo davanti ai nostri occhi come fatti storici contemporanei. L'arte dell'imparare è ricordare l'essenziale e dimenticare il contingente

Çünkü tarihin Pantheon'una yaln?z kahramanlar girer, entrikac?lar deÄŸil.

Whoever will not be a hammer in history, will be an anvil.

Germany's fate is the fate of Western Culture.

Germany awake

purpose of teaching history is not the memorizing of some dates and facts, that the student is not interested in knowing the exact date of a battle or the birthday of some marshal or other

The ultimate and most profound reason for the German decline is the fact that the racial problem was ignored, and that its importance in the historical development of nations wasn't grasped. Events that take place in the life of nations are not due to chance, but are the natural results of the effort to conserve and multiply the species and the race--even if people aren't conscious of the inner motives of their conduct.

I learned much from the Order of the Jesuits.

All of Spain is contained in DON QUIXOTE—-a decrepit society unaware the world has passed it by.