Apocalypse Quote by Northrop Frye

To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating…

— Eric Hoffer

“Thus apocalypses set an audience’s space within the context of a larger, invisible world, and they set the audience’s time in the context of…

— David A. Desilva

The history of a man is in his character.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he…

— Oswald Spengler

History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.

— Washington Irving

History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern…

— Edward Hallett Carr

The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not…

— Voltaire

Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration,…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

What man is, only history tells.

— George Mosse

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

— Boris Pasternak

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction…

— Erich Fromm

The history of mankind is his character.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe