History Quotes - Page 54

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.

History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared.

The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence at this combination, and whoever does not consider a revolution important unless it is blatant and palpable, has not yet risen to the lofty and broad vantage point of the history of mankind.

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history - its mass appeal.

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

But then history does not only consist of documents.

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.

To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it.

At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch the world was lost, and at each epoch it was saved.

The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.

[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.

"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They call upon it to explain the problems of their own time, to give to those problems a philosophical context, a continuum in which they may be reduced to proportion and perhaps made intelligible."

History is only a value of relation.

history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.