Historical-materialism Quote by Friedrich Engels

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

— Christopher Hitchens

“Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.”

— Walter Benjamin

“Each of us is the product of history. Our lives today are evidence that our ancestors survived unbelievable odds stretching back to prehistory. The…

— Laura Wheldon

“When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension; when…

— Charles Darwin

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

— David Hume

“History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our…

— Herbert Butterfield

“History is a record of human nature in action.”

— James Carlos Blake

“Personal and world history is an accumulation of todays, and how they were spent.”

— Andrew M. Davis

“Human nature in time is engraved in history.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“What are we if we are not products of our history? History is not in our past but forms us in the present. And…

— H.O. Charles

History is the science of people.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no…

— Milan Kundera