Quotes About History

El mayor disparate de nuestros ancestros fue imaginar que las cosas fundamentales surgen por decreto creador (divino o gubernativo) y se extinguen por decreto derogatorio (divino o gubernativo), cuando en realidad brotan de un impersonal espíritu humano obligado sin pausa a aprender de sus equivocaciones, dentro de procesos aleatorios que constituyen la historia de su propia libertad.

sólo de época en época florecen acuerdos no basados en refuerzos paranoicos.

Al fin y al cabo, la Historia, como viene a decir el autor del manuscrito carmesí, no es más que una larga carrera de relevos: sabemos de dónde viene y por dónde transcurre, pero, en último término, no adónde se dirige, ni cuándo concluirá.

History is at once freedom and necessity.

Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.

The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations.

Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?

History teaches, but has no pupils.

Ya hay un español que quiere vivir y a vivir empieza, entre una España que muere y otra España que bosteza. Españolito que vienes al mundo te guarde Dios. una de las dos Españas ha de helarte el corazón.

Españolito que vienes al mundo te guarde Dios. Una de las dos Españas ha de helarte el corazón.

El pasado está lleno de futuros perdidos.

Cuando lo vi volver, alto y oscilante, las manos hundidas en los bolsillos de su gran abrigo abierto y con las solapas levantadas, entendí que había en él esa intensa sugestión de carácter que tienen siempre los portadores de una historia, como los portadores de un revólver. Pero no estoy haciendo una vana comparación literaria: él tenía una historia y guardaba un revólver.

That's what cool about rock. It's as if the songs were more alive than the people. It's as if the drums and the guitars electrified our veins. It makes you want to leave the toccata and go throw stones at La Moneda. But the truth is that the following day we're all walking with our heads hanging down, sleepy, trying to read the history chapter in the last minutes before the quiz.

originally we were Lusitanians, and then came the Romans and the Celts, and then came the Arabs, so what sort of race are we Portuguese in a position to celebrate?

This, perhaps, is why it is unwise to try to judge the terrible conflict of seventy years ago with the liberal values and attitudes that we accept today as normal.

That the Soviet regime was almost as unforgiving towards its own soldiers as towards the enemy is demonstrated by the total figure of 13,500 executions, both summary and judicial, during the battle of Stalingrad.

These 'mine-dogs', trained on Pavlovian principles, had been taught to run under large vehicles to obtain their food. The stick, catching against the underside, would detonate the charge. Most of the dogs were shot before they reached their target, but this macabre tactic had an unnerving effect. It

The army's exact losses are still uncertain, but there was no doubt that the Stalingrad campaign represented the most catastrophic defeat hitherto experienced in German history.

In effect, historians abolished poverty by the simple device of taking it off the agenda.

A crook remains always sickly infatuated to the love or likes for own looks; and the people who have doubt on this outlook can look into the lifestyle of the crafty people from the genuine history book.

A man who is closer to wisdom is farther from the attraction of woman as seen and known through the history in every generation.

A substantiated proof that the world has a vast majority of people only fools is that the history shows that a genius born in every generation has been regularly treated bad to make him sad & always considered mad by the public; so a thought-provoking question is how could a person who often gets the support of good number of the people be ever good truly to others.

History may change, but the facts of the proverbs don't.

History seems to suggest blatantly that a man gains the level of wisdom in proportion to the height & length of own freedom from the bondage of a woman.