History is the only true philosophy and the only true psychology

History

History is the only true philosophy and the only true psychology - Napoleon Bonaparte, learning this the hard way @ St Helena

  • “History is the only true philosophy and the only true psychology” – Napoleon Bonaparte, writing from exile in St Helena
  • “One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” – Plato, “The Republic” (circa 380 BC).
  • “Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.” – Aristotle, “Politics” (circa 350 BC).
  • “Study the past if you would define the future.” – Confucius, “The Analects” (circa 500 BC).
  • “The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.” – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “The Communist Manifesto” (1848).
  • “Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.” – Karl Marx, “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon” (1852).
  • “It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.” – Karl Marx, “A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy” (1859).
  • “Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.” – Benjamin Disraeli, “Vivian Grey” (1826).
  • “There is a great deal of human nature in people.” – Mark Twain, “Following the Equator” (1897).
  • “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, “The Life of Reason” (1905).
  • “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” – H.G. Wells, “The Outline of History” (1920).
  • “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” – George Orwell, “1984” (1949).
  • “History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.” – Martin Luther King Jr., “Why We Can’t Wait” (1964).
  • “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou, “On the Pulse of Morning” (1993).
  • “The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, “Human, All Too Human” (1878).