Ethics Quote by George Moore

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

History is sometimes hard. We study it and try to discover facts.

— Andrzej Duda

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains…

— Paul Valery

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and…

— Thomas Carlyle

“I taught you that there is never any end to that question, because, as I once defined it for you (yes, I confess a…

— Graham Swift

History is philosophy learned from examples

— Anonymous

Problems come and go over time, and to understand why is a difficult historical task. If one wanted to find the origin of a…

— Tim Crane

It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.

— Leonard Krieger

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it…

— Henry Steele Commager

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

— Andrew Marr

I am opposing it with an idea of the history of philosophy as a history of philosophers, that is, a history of mortal, fragile…

— Simon Critchley