Books Quote by George Finlayson

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

— Leo Tolstoy

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

The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“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

In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a…

— C. Wright Mills

The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the ultimate ends…

— Ludwig von Mises

“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

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

— David Hume

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of…

— Archibald Geikie

“The study of history is an antidote to the hubris of the present – the idea that everything we have, everything we do and…

— David McCullough

Man in a word has no nature; what he has. ..is history.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history…

— Karl Marx