Essentials Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.

— Ambrose Bierce

“it is the historian's job to find coherence in the past, nothing in history can be regarded as accidental. For accident-mere chance or "fortune"-explains…

— Terry Nardin

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

— Gerda Lerner

Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“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

Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental.

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

— David Hume

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

— Aristotle

“History is a construct...Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary. Still there are definitive moments...We can look at these events…

— Margaret Atwood

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

— Hannah Arendt

When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne