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History Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error…
- It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
- To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.
- History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their…
- Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.
- A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.
- The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds…
- Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not…
- Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it.
- History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.
- If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees…
- Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that…
- In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
- As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that…
- It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.
- History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.
- Every past is worth condemning.
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