Affair Quote by Eric Hoffer

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

I repeat, not the man does it, because he has nothing to say on his own destiny, because how the history of the human…

— Sorin Cerin

If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and…

— Albert Camus

Men make history. History does not make the man.

— Harry S. Truman

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is…

— Gretel Ehrlich

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are…

— Bill Watterson

Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

— W. H. Auden

“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

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them…

— Johan Huizinga