Addresses Quote by Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been…

— David Hume

History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he…

— Oswald Spengler

The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use…

— Fridtjof Nansen

He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the earth and…

— William Faulkner

“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

One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of…

— John M. Tyler

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

— Alfred de Vigny

The history of mankind is his character.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

“He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a question of such overwhelming simplicity that…

— John Williams

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