Aphorisms Quote by Alexandre Dumas

“[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“History is the history of cruelty, not love, as soft men think.”

— Saul Bellow

“History reminds us of the inherent weakness in the human condition and the very real possibility that our fellow human beings are capable of…

— John Fea

“Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.”

— John Lanchester

“Of such things, petty annoyance and aimless thrusts, is history made.”

— Isaac Asimov

“We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.”

— Frank Tallis

“So endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much further without…

— Mark Twain

“...[Nature] ever bearing witness against man that he has deliberately chosen ugliness instead of beauty...”

— William Morris

“There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one…

— Karl Popper

“When it is a question of ascertaining whether or not some human act has really taken place, [historians] cannot be too painstaking. If they…

— Marc Bloch

“History would not be what it is, the record of man’s crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.”

— Ladislas Farago

“We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers.”

— Niall Ferguson