Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Live out of your imagination not your history.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

In the course of history men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history since its statements are rather of the nature of universals whereas those of history are singulars.