Historical Fate Quotes

When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the fearful question whether inscrutable Destiny, perhaps for reasons unknown to us poor mortals, did not, with eternal and immutable resolve, desire the final victory of this little nation.

if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.

The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and back again, changewhich suddenly dissolves into a moment of extreme catastrophe, a model tragedy because the fate of Europe was determined within this individual fate.

Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.

In Him (God), history and prophecy are one and the same.

I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

Ithink Isaid'All menare Jews excepttheydon't know it.'I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.

If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

There is a little bit of hubris to want to change the past. It implies that you know better - that things didn't happen the way that they were supposed to.