Accommodations Quote by Jack Vance

“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

The history of mankind is his character.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

— John Oliver Killens

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge…

— Romain Gary

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends.…

— Karl Marx

The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas - and what I mean is, that…

— Erich Fromm

The history of a man is in his character.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

— Karl Marx

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction…

— Erich Fromm

All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.

— Eamon de Valera

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