Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Truth Quotes, History Quotes

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

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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.

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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

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Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

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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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If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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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.

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

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Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of the nation, that the position of the individual is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole.

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The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

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If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

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What if this present were the world's last night?

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

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