Accepting Quote by Albert Camus

Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.

— Albert Camus

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

— Avery Brooks

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

— William Carlos Williams

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are…

— Simon Conway Morris

There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants and reward…

— George W. Bush

The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist.

— Isaiah Berlin

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory…

— Salman Rushdie

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against…

— Anais Nin

“History has taught us that the nature of man is evil, sublimely so. Good is not perfectible, but evil is. Why should you not…

— Elizabeth Kostova

I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair.

— Rene Girard

Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.

— George Will