Character Quote by Albert Camus

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

— Samuel Johnson

The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating, meaningless game,…

— Stefan Zweig

To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating…

— Eric Hoffer

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

— Carlton J. H. Hayes

The history of mankind is his character.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I repeat, not the man does it, because he has nothing to say on his own destiny, because how the history of the human…

— Sorin Cerin

Man in a word has no nature; what he has. ..is history.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction…

— Erich Fromm

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses…

— Friedrich Engels

“Maybe what has to happen is that the individual must allow himself to be swept along, must find himself in the stream of no-choice,…

— Don DeLillo

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

— Adolf Hitler