History Quote by Emil M. Cioran

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under…

— Karl Marx

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

— Anonymous

“It’s quite certain there are places to which the whole past is as though attached, on which are traced in secret letters for people…

— Vladimir Odoevsky

“As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and…

— Sara Sheridan

“History is a tissue of base and cruel acts in the midst of which a few drops of purity sparkle at long intervals.”

— Simone Weil

“History is not a dead thing or a sure thing. It lived with our choices and our dreams. It is the story of our…

— Joan Nestle

“World-history is the history of the great Cultures, and peoples are but the symbolic forms and vessels in which the men of these Cultures…

— Oswald Spengler

“History shapes the lives of all men, women and children ... sometimes unraveling humanity into an undesired mess.”

— Lynda I Fisher

“Suddenly all those individuals who yesterday felt that "we" meant only their families, their professions, or perhaps their communities, become men of the nation.…

— Oswald Spengler

“The history of the world is but a biography of great men.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“It is part of the fascination of the study of history that we often know more about what went on a hundred years ago…

— William Stewart Wallace 1932

“My goal is to make history come alive. My fictitious characters are woven into the tapestry of actual history.”

— C.B. Huesing