History is the investigation of the human past as it is portrayed in the composed archives left by individuals. The past, with every one of its choices finished, its members dead and its history told, is the thing that the overall population sees as the permanent bedrock on which we students of history and archeologists stand. In any case, as purveyors of the past, we perceive that the bedrock is truly sand trap, that bits of the story are yet untold, and that what has been told comes corrupted by the states of what we are today.
That is my conclusion, obviously—here are an accumulation of others.
HISTORY DEFINITION
History is a portrayal of the occasions which have occurred among humankind, including a record of the ascent and fall of countries, and of other incredible changes which have influenced the political and social state of mankind.— John J. Anderson. 1876. A Manual of General History.
History is not what you thought. It is the thing that you recollect. All other history massacres itself.— W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman. 1930 Preface, 1066 what not.
History, Stephen stated, is a bad dream from which I am attempting to alert.— James Joyce. Ulysses. 1922(1988) Published by Oxford University Press. P. 34
History not utilized is nothing, for all scholarly life is activity, as viable life, and on the off chance that you don't utilize the stuff well, it should be dead.— Arnold J. Toynbee April 17, 1955. NBC transmission.
THE PSYCHO-HISTORIAN
On the off chance that an exploration of history were accomplished, it would, similar to the investigation of heavenly mechanics, make conceivable the measurable expectation without bounds ever.
It would bring the totality of recorded events inside a solitary field and uncover the unfurling future to its last end, including all the clear decisions made and to be made. It would be omniscience. The maker of it would have the traits attributed by the scholars to God. The future once uncovered, mankind would have nothing to do but to anticipate its fate.— Charles Austin Beard.
1933. "Recorded history as an Act of Fate." Annual address of the leader of the American Historical Association, conveyed at Urbana, Illinois. December 28, 1933. American Historical Review 39(2):219-231.
History is and ought to be a science. .... History is not the aggregation of occasions of each kind which occurred before. It is the exploration of human social orders.— Fustel de Coulanges
The main establishments of all history are the presentations of the fathers to the youngsters, transmitted a short time later starting with one era then onto the next; at their source they are at the most plausible, when they don't stun presence of mind, and they lose one level of likelihood in every era.— Voltaire [1694-1778]. The Philosophical Dictionary. interpreted 1924 by H.I. Woolf
History is ... a discourse between the present and the past. (initially: Geschichte ist ... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit.)— Edward Hallet Carr. 1961. What Is History? New York: Vintage Books.
HISTORY, n. A record generally false, of occasions for the most part irrelevant, which are achieved by rulers for the most part villains, and officers for the most part tricks: Of Roman history, extraordinary Niebuhr's demonstrated 'Tis nine-tenths lying. Confidence, I wish 'twere referred to, Ere we acknowledge extraordinary Niebuhr as a guide, Wherein he screwed up and the amount he lied.
(Salder Bupp) — Ambrose Bierce. 1911. Fallen angel's Dictionary
A PACK OF TRICKS
History is only a pack of traps we play on the dead. (French unique) J'ay vu un temps où vous n'aimiez guères l'histoire. Ce n'est après tout qu'un ramas de tracasseries qu'on fait aux morts...) — Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet). 1757. Letter to Pierre Robert Le Cornier de Cideville. In Voltaire's Correspondence vol. xxxi. altered by Theodore Besterman, 1958. Geneva
History, genuine grave history, I can't be keen on. I read it a little as an obligation, yet it reveals to me nothing that does not either vex or fatigued me. The fights of popes and lords, with wars or plagues, in each page; the men all so useful to no end, and scarcely any ladies whatsoever—it is exceptionally tedious.— Catherine Morland [Jane Austen]. 1803. Northanger Abbey.
The real lessons of history? There are four: First, whom the divine beings demolish they initially make distraught with control. Second, the factories of God crush gradually, yet they pound surpassing little. Third, the honey bee treats the bloom it victimizes. Fourth, when it is sufficiently dim you can see the stars.— Although this quote has been ascribed to history specialist Charles Austin Beard, I couldn't locate a unique source. This rendition is the one Martin Luther King utilized as a part of "The passing of fiendishness upon the seashore" in Strength to Love, 1981. Fortification Press, p. 83
A race of individuals resembles an individual man; until the point when it utilizes its own particular ability, takes pride in its own particular history, communicates its own way of life, confirms its own particular selfhood, it can never satisfy itself. — Attributed to Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)
HISTORY DEFINITIONS FOR THE CRANKY
Most occasions recorded in history are more surprising than imperative, similar to obscurations of the sun and moon, by which all are pulled in, however whose impacts nobody takes the inconvenience to compute.— Henry David Thoreau. 1849. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
After such information, what pardoning? Think now
History has numerous finesse sections, created halls
Furthermore, issues, tricks with whispering desire,
Aides us by vanities. Think now
She gives when our consideration is occupied
Furthermore, what she gives, gives with such supple perplexities
That the giving famishes the yearning. Gives past the point of no return
What's not put stock in, or if still accepted,
In memory just, rethought energy. Gives too early
Into frail hands, what's idea can be shed
Till the refusal spreads a dread. Think
Neither dread nor fearlessness spares us. Unnatural indecencies
Are fathered by our courage. Excellencies
Are constrained upon us by our impudent wrongdoings.
These tears are shaken from the fury bearing tree.
— T.S. Eliot. 1920 Gerontion. In The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems.
You know, it's so weird, I've survived four types of government in my life: government, republic, Hitler's Reich, American majority rules system. The [Weimar] republic was just ...
1918 to 1933, that is fifteen years! Envision that, lone fifteen years. Be that as it may, at that point, Hitler would last a thousand years and he endured just ... 1933 to 1945... twelve, twelve years as it were! Hah! — Gusti Bienstock Kollman (conceived 1912, got away Austria to the United States after Kristallnacht 1938)
So extremely troublesome an issue it is to follow and discover reality of anything by history. — Plutarch. ca. 46-120 AD—from Dryden's interpretation of Plutarch's Lives, altered and reexamined by A. H. Clough
The History of each major Galactic Civilization tends to go through three unmistakable and conspicuous stages, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, also called the How, Why and Where stages. For example, the principal stage is described by the inquiry "How might we eat?" the second by the inquiry "Why do we eat?" and the third by the inquiry "Where should we eat? — Douglas Adams. 1981. Wanderer's Guide to the Universe. Concordance Books. P. 215
