history Quotes

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be... ...

Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.

Poetry is deeper and more meaningful than history because it talks about general truths, while history talks about specific events.

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of... ...

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

Therefore, poetry is more philosophical and serious than history, because its statements are more universal, while history's are specific.

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black... ...

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.