Aspects Quote by Tom Stoppard

History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the…

— Mary Ritter Beard

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

— H. G. Wells

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

— David Hume

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization…

— Anonymous

“One difficulty is that we cannot always reconstruct the past thoughts of these non-Western peoples, for not all of them existed in civilizations with…

— Niall Ferguson

History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier.…

— Stephen Fry

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

— Karl Popper

Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

The genuine history of mankind is the history of ideas. It is ideas that distinguish man from all other beings. Ideas engender social institutions,…

— Ludwig von Mises

To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view.

— Bertrand Russell

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

— Dale Jamieson