The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

History is a relentless master. it has no present, only the past rushing into the future. to try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. cultivate peace and harmony with all.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. lies will pass into history.

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.