History Quote by Karl Jaspers

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History should be written as philosophy.

— Voltaire

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

— William James

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history…

— Karl Jaspers

A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy,…

— Will Durant

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in…

— Karl Jaspers

History is philosophy learned from examples

— Anonymous

“examination of its own history and of the forms of thought given the name “philosophy” indicates that “philosophy” has itself borne many fundamentally different…

— Gregory B. Sadler

I am opposing it with an idea of the history of philosophy as a history of philosophers, that is, a history of mortal, fragile…

— Simon Critchley

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

— Thomas Carlyle

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

— Thucydides

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld