Top 100 History Itself Quotes
#1. Was at the core of primeval beliefs. Its names are as old as history itself ... Dharmakaya, Tao, Brahman.
Dan Brown
#2. History within itself cannot be transcended ... In history itself there are only relative victories.
Ernst Troeltsch
#3. As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.
Hillary Clinton
#4. In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.
John Edgar Wideman
#5. This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.
James Henry Breasted
#6. It is indeed the truth of the traumatic experience that forms the center of its psychopathology; it is not a pathology of falsehood or displacement of meaning, but of history itself (p. 5)
Cathy Caruth
#7. Hegel believed that the basis of human cognition changed from one generation to the next. There were therefore no 'eternal truths', no timeless reason. The only fixed point philosophy can hold on to is history itself.
Jostein Gaarder
#8. As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.
Elizabeth Kostova
#9. Guns aren't just history's props and agents: they're history itself, spinning alternate futures in their chamber, hurling the present from their barrel, casting aside the empty shells of past
Tom McCarthy
#10. Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself - who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives.
Simon Van Booy
#11. I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#12. I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude towards history, history itself as a political act, has always informed my writing and my teaching.
Howard Zinn
#13. Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
Jon Meacham
#15. I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.
Colin Quinn
#16. Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.
Tanith Lee
#17. History is a yarn. And can I deny that what I wanted all along was not some golden nugget that history would at last yield up, but History itself: the Grand Narrative, the filler of vacuums, the dispeller of fears of the dark?
Graham Swift
#18. The truth is not simply visible to the naked eyes, not any more. When people believe so much in media reports, history itself may conceal the truth only the chosen ones can see.
Aishah Madadiy
#19. At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.
E.P. Thompson
#20. With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us.
Evan Meekins
#21. The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#22. Knowing that history carried itself in the body and soul, not a physical location, not in letters burned in a fire or a magazine trapped beneath the rubble,
Kristen Simmons
#23. History repeats itself and that's just how it goes,
J. Cole
#24. That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
C.S. Lewis
#25. History is written by the victors,' she said, 'but the truth has a way of revealing itself.
Sebastien De Castell
#26. History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.
William L. Shirer
#27. Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Karl Marx
#28. Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down - or up, I suppose - replacing other people in the process.
Alexander McCall Smith
#29. It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein
#30. Gamora: History repeating itself?
Warlock: History doesn't repeat itself, Gamora, but sometimes it rhymes.
Dan Abnett
#31. This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men led them to believe they could disregard even nature itself.
Erik Larson
#32. History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.
Terry Eagleton
#33. While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.
Eric Alterman
#34. There's a few in our history, where the person who creates it becomes almost the product itself. Jobs is one of those.
Joshua Michael Stern
#35. Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter.
Umberto Eco
#36. Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
Lord Henry Wotton
#37. Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.
Criss Jami
#38. Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.
Kalle Lasn
#39. I will be on the look out for you, my dear girl," he wrote. "You must expect to give yourself up when you come." For this buttoned-up age, for Burnham, it was a letter that could have steamed itself open.
Erik Larson
#40. We are condemned to repeat the past whether we remember it or not. It is inevitable; just ask Nietzsche (eternal return) or Hegel (history repeats itself) or James McCourt (history repeats itself like hiccups). Beirutis
Rabih Alameddine
#41. History has a way of chasing gravity just like water, feeding into other parts of itself to become something else, something larger and grander, until the one pure thing it was no longer exists.
James Anderson
#42. History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Naguib Mahfouz
#43. Clearly, naming the major figures in the tradition had become a tradition in itself.
Gregory Woods
#44. A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
Malcolm X
#45. The word "collective" is not so often used because it has been basically used by socialists and communists and has a different history. The word "cooperative" means the workplace itself is organized cooperatively, rather than in the conventional capitalistic, hierarchical form.
Richard D. Wolff
#46. Conscious access to memory is a unique trait of living things, but memory itself is not. It's encoded in the minute vibrations between elementary particles. Our entire universe is built of information given shape. Part of that is its history. Its memory.
M.R. Graham
#47. Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.
Edna Ferber
#48. Shiny like new zinc holding up a roof or a fence right beside old zinc, the material itself a living history of when last the politician did the ghetto a favor.
Marlon James
#49. History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.
Henry A. Kissinger
#50. History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music.
Stephen King
#51. History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.
Billy Sheehan
#52. No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
T. E. Hulme
#53. The tragedy of my species xxx is that it does not live in its own time. Homo sapiens is locked on history's rearview mirror, never the road ahead, bent on catching some presumed lost paradise xxx
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The human race is destroying itself with nostalgia ...
James K. Morrow
#54. History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
Will Durant
#55. I could drop dead tomorrow, the truth will be here. Truth is forever; when you read our history, truth is forever, and it always outs itself.
Paul Mooney
#56. I am more and more impressed with the possibilities of history's repeating itself on many different counts. You don't get very far in Wall Street with the simple, convenient conclusion that a given level of prices is not too high.
Benjamin Graham
#57. History may not repeat itself but, as Mark Twain said, it does rhyme.
Paul Kriwaczek
#58. What Jesus did was not a mere example of something else, not a mere manifestation of some larger truth; it was itself the climactic event and fact of cosmic history. From then on everything is different ... the End came forward into the present in Jesus the Messiah
N. T. Wright
#59. Ignorance and its denial will, sad to say, lead us down the same road as it did in all past history.
Jordan Maxwell
#60. History repeats itself but without a parity bit
Nauman Khan
#61. They were of the past, and the past always mends itself, no matter how we interfere." "Which is why you can't go back and kill baby Hitler to stop the war from happening," said Enoch. "History heals itself. Isn't that interesting?
Ransom Riggs
#62. "History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
G. M. Trevelyan
#63. Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its art, its key institutions - rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time.
Peter Drucker
#64. But history does repeat itself; that is the comedy and the crime of history. Men learn nothing. Times change. Scenes change. Names change. But passions are the same.
Carlos Fuentes
#65. It's not history repeating itself in Gaza, it's horror repeating itself
Dean Cavanagh
#66. Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!
Robert Harris
#67. History repeats itself is another way of saying the past harmonizes.
Stephen King
#68. I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#69. History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.
Demetri Martin
#70. Maybe history wouldn't have to repeat itself if we listened once in awhile.
Wynne McLaughlin
#71. When I read a story, I relive the moment from which it sprang. A scene burned itself into me, a building magnetized me, a mood orseason of Nature's penetrated me, history suddenly appeared to me in some tiny act, or a face had begun to haunt me before I glanced at it.
Elizabeth Bowen
#72. Age in itself gives substance - what has lasted becomes a thing worth keeping. An older poem's increasing strangeness of language is part of its beauty, in the same way that the cracks and darkening of an old painting become part of its luminosity in the viewer's mind.
Jane Hirshfield
#73. Until the company believes in itself, AOL didn't have its own space and identity in the marketplace. The opportunity is to get out from under the negative history and figure out the value AOL offers for consumers and for publishers and advertisers.
Tim Armstrong
#74. All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late.
Kenneth Roberts
#75. All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.
Carl Lotus Becker
#76. But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity.
Stefan Zweig
#77. As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.
William Gibson
#78. History is the most patient of teachers. If Man doesn't get the lesson, it keeps repeating itself until he finally gets it.
Christian Adam Ribeiraud
#79. History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.
Erik Qualman
#81. All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself
Martin Luther
#82. Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
J. D. Hayworth
#83. America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.
Oscar Wilde
#84. Every evil weaves itself into the fabric of history, never to be undone. Yet at the same time - at the very same time - each of us gets a new soul with which to start the world again. It
Andrew Klavan
#85. I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.
Damien Chazelle
#86. Note: If you met your wife while she was married to another man, history is bound to repeat itself.
Jim Gaffigan
#87. The notion of representing a sound by a graphic symbol is itself so stupefying a leap of the imagination that what is remarkable is not so much that it happened relatively late in human history, but that it happened at all.
Jack Goody
#88. Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question of its contentious history, along with the name of its original inventor, dropped from the consciousness of the seamen who used it every day.
Dava Sobel
#89. Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.
Steven Pinker
#90. A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in history, and judgement upon the pious. An authentic prophet can be a radical critic of spurious piety, of sham spirituality.
James Luther Adams
#91. Of course if no one had ever been exposed to dangerous ideas from scandalous women, Christianity itself would not have had its unique beginning nor its glorious history, but whatever.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#92. It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.
Mark Twain
#93. The white race is the cancer of human history, it is the white race, and it aloneits ideologies and inventionswhich eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.
Susan Sontag
#94. A revolution in itself is not a blessing. The revolution accomplished by the French people is, indeed, a wonderful event - the most striking, in my opinion, in history; but it may lead to events which will make it a mighty evil.
John C. Calhoun
#95. The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#96. From the very beginning of time itself, enemies have become friends, and friends have become lovers. It is not beyond the realm of possibility, even if history and experiences might be against it. Against us.
Keri Arthur
#97. It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history.
Ludwig Von Mises
#98. I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself.
David Talbot
#99. Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
Samuel P. Huntington
#100. Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.
David Harvey
