A Quote by Karl Popper

There is no history, only histories.

Karl Popper

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Karl Popper
Austrian - Philosopher
July 28, 1902 - September 17, 1994

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

Karl Popper

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

Thomas Malthus

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

Karl Popper

As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant. My friends will write histories that glorify me and prove I was more important than I was. And two generations or three from now, some serious sober historian will write a history that sort of implies I was whoever I was.

Newt Gingrich

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

Raymond Queneau

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

Honore de Balzac

The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.

Bayard Taylor

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

Benedetto Croce

The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the material, the informing spirit as compared with the outward and visible.

William H. Prescott

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

Samuel Johnson

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.

Erik Larson

I find diplomatic histories the dullest of histories.

Erik Larson

China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions.

Ai Weiwei

I used to refer to my photos as free radicals - and maybe that has to do with this idea of navigating history. I think of the works as having this dormant illness that can really latch on to different histories. So they can exist in a world pretending to be neatly encapsulated, already framed, and fixed. But actually they are these parasites dependent on the failure of modernist history and on multiplicity.

Elad Lassry

I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their own families' histories, and how those stories relate to the larger picture of American history. Then it is no longer abstract. Then it becomes a story that really means something to us as individuals.

Adele Logan Alexander

I came into my teens unaware that most Americans, blacks as well as whites, were ignorant of the main facts of Negro history. And so it was the facts of other histories that I found most intriguing. I fell into a U.S. history major by chance late in my second year at Fisk University.

David Levering Lewis

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