Art Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation (the differential of history, that is, the individual tendencies of men) and attaining to the art…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Either history is really governed by laws, and in that case a truly human-activity is impossible, except perhaps in a technical sense; or human…

— Cornelius Castoriadis

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

“Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of social or political "physics" with reliable predictive powers.…

— Niall Ferguson

History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other phenomena, subject to invariable laws.

— Auguste Comte

“The rational study of law is still to a large extent the study of history. History must be a part of the study, because…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy,…

— Vilfredo Pareto

“So why study history? Unlike physics or economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“so why study history? unlike physics and economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We shall not understand the history of men and of other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied,…

— Benedetto Croce

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

— David Hume

“History may not be a very practical study, but it teaches some useful lessons, one of which is that nothing is accidental, and that…

— Brooks Adams