Analysis Quote by Albert Camus

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

— Albert Camus

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

— Elias Canetti

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

— Peter Greenaway

All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the name raises…

— G. B. Caird

History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

History is not history unless it is the truth.

— Abraham Lincoln

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

— Anselm Kiefer

There is no history, only histories.

— Karl Popper

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

— Sandi Toksvig

The idea of a judgment of history is secularism's vain, meaningless, hopeless, pathetic attempt to devise a substitute for what the great Abrahamic traditions…

— Robert P. George