20th century Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

“History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that…

— R.G. Collingwood

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends.…

— Karl Marx

Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.

— Tanith Lee

Men make history. History does not make the man.

— Harry S. Truman

History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern…

— Edward Hallett Carr

“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

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.

— Malcolm X

Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit…

— Geoffrey Barraclough

I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence…

— Kenneth Clark

Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can…

— Leo Tolstoy

Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire…

— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.

— C. Wright Mills