Comprehension Quote by Oswald Spengler

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

“He said history was a sum of situations whose significance was never seen until long afterwards because people had been afraid to act them…

— Paul Scott

“Because history became his (Keenan's) genuine passion, he tended to see the world in terms of deep historical forces that, in his mind, formed…

— David Halberstam

History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far…

— Friedrich Schiller

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

— John Smith

Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire…

— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

“What is history? What is its significance for humanity? Dr. J. H. Robinson gives us a precise answer: "Man's abject dependence on the past…

— Alfred Korzybski

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been…

— David Hume

A historian is interested in the past because he is interested in life... a deeply felt need to assure the continuity of human life…

— Ralph Davis

“The truth of history lies simultaneously in the substratum of created existence (since all beings are the willed realizations of God's love); in the…

— John D. Zizoulas

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

— Arnold J. Toynbee