History Quote by Karl Marx

“Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.”

— John Lanchester

“Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but…

— Karl Marx

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

— Leo Tolstoy

“Deep in his heart, man aspires to rejoin the condition he had before consciousness. History is merely the detour he takes to get there.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.”

— James Allen

“The task of modern man is not to find his inner self, but to create himself.”

— Rod Judkins

“Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But what made a man was not the absence of mistakes, but rather, the way he handled them when he made them.”

— Max Monroe

“[...] no man is free of his own history.”

— Anita Brookner

“Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and hurl in the face of custom and trade and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man must sometimes be forced to make choices, for it is only by his choices that we know what a man truly is.”

— Chaim Potok

“It didn’t matter who he might have been. That was not who he was now. He created himself each day and slowly built his…

— Ginn Hale