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“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.”
“I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.”
“History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.”
“To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.”
“History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.”
“History is the memory of things said and done.”
“Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.”
“A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.”
“The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.”
“We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.”
“The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.”
“A new future requires a new past.”
“I wonder why we hate the past so.”
“How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?”
“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.”
“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.”
“Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.”