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History Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this…
- You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.
- I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture…
- The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest…
- That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
- The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by…
- De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
- The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
- From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
- In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.
- That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach
More History Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough