Lei Yue Mun - History

Famous quotes containing the word history:

“A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passé abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)

“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)