Commonplace Quote by Hannah Arendt

The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating, meaningless game,…

— Stefan Zweig

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully…

— Johan Huizinga

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

— Johan Huizinga

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

— Herbert Butterfield

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

“History would not be what it is, the record of man’s crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.”

— Ladislas Farago

“The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity…

— Frank Kermode

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

— Johan Huizinga

“every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it”

— Paulo Coelho

“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

“A key theme is that human history, behavior and reality are governed not by what we know but by what we believe.”

— Richard B. Spence

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the…

— James Harvey Robinson