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We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands. — Malala Yousafzai

In other words, that works of history are mere collections of facts. It is fiction alone that can show us the true nature of human beings — Daisaku Ikeda

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history. — Raymond Williams

Hitler reacted primarily in a sadistic fashion toward people, but masochistically toward fate, history, the "higher power" of nature. — Erich Fromm

The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature. — H.A.L. Fisher

The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past. — Alexander Von Humboldt

Nothing in the history of humankind has been disrespected as much as nature. — M.F. Moonzajer

Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century. — Ernst W. Mayr

It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together. — Sylvia Earle

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

It's possible to satisfy the needs of the inner life by an intimate communion with nature, or by knowledge of the past. — Adolf Hitler

I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo. — Friedrich Schiller

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again. — George R R Martin

When the ancients discovered 'Phi', they were certain they had stumbled across God's building block for the world. — Dan Brown

Rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity. — Laura Riding

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him. — Will Durant

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature. — David Hume

Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism — Frank Knight

We teach in our cultural history that the entire universe is a family. So our association with Nature is much deeper and of a very different kind. — Narendra Modi

History, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness. — Helen Foster Snow

For all civilisations are like elaborate campings-out, a complicated picnic in the face of nature's discomforts. — Elizabeth Taylor

The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present. — Marshall McLuhan

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature. — Albert Camus

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor? — David McCullough

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms. — Marcus Aurelius

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology. — Karl Marx

The Golden Mean was considered a fundamental constant by the Egyptians and the fundamental division of the whole into two parts. — Richard Heath

In the history of the earth, the sun remains still. — Lailah Gifty Akita

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The calendrical harshness of nature is nothing to the boundless cruelty of history. — Joseph Roth

If the silence of nature is the possibility of language, language is the possibility of history. — James P. Carse

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results. — Friedrich Schiller

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times. — Edward Gibbon

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense. — Kedar Joshi

If history has taught me anything about the nature of others, it has thought me that when natures can not be denied, they persist. — Dew Platt

Nature is actually the goal at the end of history. — Terence McKenna

From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature. — Ahmed Zewail

The history of human nature: How far can we get away with being complete and utter bastards, before we have to backtrack? — Paul MacAlindin

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself. — James Gleick

You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature. — Paul Lauterbur

In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life. — Karl Marx

Archmaester Rigney once wrote that history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. — George R R Martin

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress. — Swami Vivekananda

That's the nature of a fat man, Ce'Nedra." He sighed. "The last meal is history. It's the next one that's important. — David Eddings

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors. — Kate Morton

Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things. — Giambattista Vico

The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature. — Gustavo Gutierrez

The whole point of society is to be less unforgiving than nature. — Arthur D. Hlavaty

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history? — William Wordsworth

History is distinguished
from nature precisely by the fact that it transforms science and passion by means of will. — Albert Camus

... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines! — E.A. Bucchianeri