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“What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.”

Ends Facts Lying History

Author:Jean Cocteau

“It is because everything must come to an end that everything is so beautiful.”

Art Ends Philosophy Beautiful Beauty History

Author:Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

“Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.”

Believe War Ends I Believe History Events Tears Civil War Shed American Civil War

Author:William Tecumseh Sherman

“It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military maneuvers, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of.”

Ends Light History Military Humour Bottom Scales Discworld

Author:Terry Pratchett

“The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.”

Important Ends Seems History Study Mankind Events Civilization Conviction Important Events

Author:Madame de Stael

“There was not one cause for our internment, but many - a deep-seated racial prejudice working on top of fear, distrust, and greed. So how is one to say exactly where history begins or ends? It is all slow oscillations, curves, and waves which take so long to reveal themselves ... like watching a tree grow.”

Long Ends Grows Causes History Tree Racism Prejudice Greed Wave Distrust Curves Racial Prejudice Internment Oscillation

Book:Heart Mountain: A Novel

Source: Heart Mountain: A Novel

“The emperor of the East was no longer guided by the wisdom and authority of his elder brother, whose death happened towards the end of the preceding year: and, as the distressful situation of the Goths required an instant and peremptory decision, he was deprived of the favourite resource of feeble and timid minds; who consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.”

“Hitler, who founded the Third Reich, who ruled it ruthlessly and often with uncommon shrewdness, who led it to such dizzy heights and such a sorry end, was a person of undoubted, if evil genius. It is true that in the German people, as a mysterious Providence and centuries of experience had molded them up to that time, he found a natural instrument which he was able to shape to his own sinister ends.”

Source: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

“But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and - until the end, when, drunk with power and success, he overreached himself - an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.”

“As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.”

Ends Quality History Records Fundamentals Primaries Historian Fidelity Accuracy Impartiality

Book:Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair

Source: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair

“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”

“Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.”

Art Ends Philosophy History

Author:George A. Moore

“Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.”

Ends Careers History Fool Genius Inventor

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.”

Ifs Inspirational Should Littles Ends Bigs Motivational History Historical Myth Poetry Is Poetic Contradictory Remakes

Book:Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literary Correspondence

Source: Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literary Correspondence

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.”

“History is, indeed, an argument without end.”

Ends History Argument

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.”

Ends Character History Civilization Structure

Book:Dancing building

Source: Dancing building

“It was a needed instrument to spread abroad the truth of a new gospel to woman, and I could not withhold my hand to stay the work I had begun. I saw not the end from the beginning and dreamed where to my propositions to society would lead me.”

Ends Hands History Saws Needed Instruments Spread Propositions Leading Me

Author:Amelia Bloomer

“In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.”

Should Ends Pleasure History British Accomplished Instruction Thrilling Illumination Succession British History Narrators

Book:A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603

Source: A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603

“History is an argument without end.”

Ends History Argument

Author:Pieter Geyl

“History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.”

People Thinking Writing Ends Truth History Generations Products Historical Myth

Author:E. L. Doctorow

“All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.”

Firsts Ends Lasts Science History Development Evolution Species Extinction Exhibits Last Day Geology Genealogy Firsts And Lasts

Book:The Testimony of the Rocks

Source: The Testimony of the Rocks

“History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.”

Source: Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More

“Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.”

Men Should Humans Ends Age Race History Youth Illusion Human Race Feds Cynicism Altruism Renounce

Book:Greatest Works of Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Duel, Lord Jim, Victory, The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold, The Secret Agent, The Nigger of the Narcissus & Under Western Eyes: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

Source: Greatest Works of Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Duel, Lord Jim, Victory, The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold, The Secret Agent, The Nigger of the Narcissus & Under Western Eyes: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

“When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?”

Men Has Beens Made Ends Facts Past Science Universe History Development Tasks Accounts Missions Cease Phenomenon Phases Examination Past Life Classification

Book:The Grammar of Science

Source: The Grammar of Science

“In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation's moral and material health. The whole educational system, theater, film, literature, the press and broadcasting - all these will be used as a means to this end.”

“Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.”

Looks Mean Ends Country Whole Action Principles History Catholicism Sanctions

Book:Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.”

Ends History Reign

Author:Milan Kundera

“Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.”

Mean Ends Politics Space History Politician Fairs Critical Breathing Justify Turning Points Ends Justify The Means Breathing Space

Book:Darkness at noon

Source: Darkness at noon

“A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.”

Humans Ends Facts History Smallest Human History Assemblage

Author:J. B. Bury

“I decline to accept the end of man.”

Men Art Ends Philosophy Accepting History Decline Aggravation

Author:William Faulkner

“Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. If we do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world.”

Ifs World May Ends Country Hands Able History Achieve Duty Racism Assuming Our Country Nightmare World History Handful

Author:James A. Baldwin