History Quote by Victor Hugo

Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been…

— Victor Hugo

It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.

— Tom Perrotta

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but…

— Desiderius Erasmus

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

— Frank Herbert

“The emergence of pessimistic philosophies is by no means a sign of great and terrible misery. The emergence of pessimistic philosophies is by no…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

— William James

History should be written as philosophy.

— Voltaire

There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as…

— Thomas Huxley

Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil…

— Phineas Quimby

A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy,…

— Will Durant

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.

— Seneca the Younger

Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.

— Anonymous