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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

World history is a court of judgment.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.