Arranging Quote by Johan Huizinga

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, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them…

— Johan Huizinga

History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.

— Earnest Hooton

“most historical relationships are ironical in character, or, to put it differently, that the course of history has little to do with the intrinsic…

— Peter L. Berger

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories;…

— Agnes Repplier

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

— Will Durant

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

— Martin Heidegger

History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.

— Terry Eagleton

History is an intricate web of of timing, people, circumstances, and serendipity.

— Don Rittner

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.

— David Weinberger

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

— Winston Churchill