Martin Heidegger Quotes

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product.

History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory. It might almost be said to be no science at all

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. This is what makes the trade of historian so attractive.

History is not just a story related by a fool.

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

Writing history is writing the soul of the past...

Whoever writes on world history, but not as a forensic history, becomes thereby an accomplice.

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

History after all is the true poetry.

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

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

So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens.

No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

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

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

I think you can learn from history.