"History held counterexamples to any facile rule."

"History is nothing whatever but a record of what living persons have done in the past."

"No honest historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the hum…"

"History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided."

"Escapists take refuge in cliches such as “Human nature will never change” and “History always repeats itself!” Nevert…"

"There are two ways of summing up world history, the inner way and the outer way. Both have been at the mercy of scrib…"

"The past is a pointer to the future. If we can understand the past and follow the trend of development throughout his…"

"The sciences we are familiar with have been installed in a number of great 'continents'. Before Marx, two such contin…"

"I was not speaking of minor ripples in the mainstream of history—certainly those are ruled by chance. But the broad c…"

"Psychology has a long past, but only a short history."