History Quote by Joaquin R. Larriba

“Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue…

— Maximilien Robespierre

“To lead a human life, a man must have a notion of himself as having a past and a future.”

— Mary Warnock

“Man is adept at navigating the globe and beyond - yet doubt finding his own destiny”

— Gino Norris

“Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals. ”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is…

— G.K. Chesterton

“I like what Flaubert once wrote. History is prophecy, looking backwards.”

— Steve Berry

“You are the author of your own destiny; write yourself into history books.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.”

— Osamu Dazai

“This is man: a writer of books, a putter-down of words, a painter of pictures, a maker of ten thousand philosophies. He grows passionate…

— Thomas Wolfe

The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.

— Wole Soyinka

“Man forges his own history, imposing on nature the errors of his free will. If hatred and greed drag man down among bloody mazes,…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila