Franz Kafka Quotes, Men Quotes, History Quotes

Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.

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History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

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It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day ... the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.

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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

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History paints the human heart.

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History is written by the winners.

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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

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The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

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They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

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History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

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A turning point in modern history.

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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

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The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

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

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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