History Lesson

Famous quotes containing the words history and/or lesson:

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)

“The expansive nature of truth comes to our succor, elastic, not to be surrounded. Man helps himself by larger generalizations. The lesson of life is practically to generalize; to believe what the years and the centuries say against the hours; to resist the usurpation of particulars; to penetrate to their catholic sense.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)