#2,970

History is indeed the history of freedom—not of an essence “Freedom,” but of free human acts and their unforeseeable consequences.

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#2,960

The modern world resulted from the confluence of three independent causal series: the demographic expansion, democratic propaganda, the industrial revolution.

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#2,957

Compared to the sophisticated structure of every historical fact, Marxism’s generalizations possess a touching naiveté.

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#2,954

Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man.

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#2,953

Historical events stop being interesting the more accustomed their participants become to judging everything in purely secular categories.
Without the intervention of gods everything becomes boring.

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#2,952

If we are ignorant of an epoch’s art, its history is a colorless narrative.

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#2,951

The people that awakes, first shouts, then gets drunk, pillages, [and] murders, and later goes back to sleep.

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#2,950

Why not imagine the possibility, after several centuries of Soviet hegemony, of the conversion of a new Constantine?

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#2,915

The fragments of the past that survive embarrass the modern landscape in which they stand out.

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#2,897

None of the high points of history has been planned.
The reformer can only be credited with errors.

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#2,864

Even when patriotic historians become angry, the history of many countries is completely lacking in interest.

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#2,862

History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man’s ability.

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#2,846

The essential mechanism of history is the simple replacement of some individualities by others.

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#2,845

The economic cause produces “something,” but only the historical juncture decides “what.”

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#2,844

The historian who speaks of cause, and not of causes, should be fired immediately.

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#2,831

If determinism is real, if only that can happen which must happen, error does not exist.
Error supposes that something happened that should not have.

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#2,817

The nature of the effect, in history, depends on the nature of the individual on which the cause acts.

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#2,816

The diversity of history is the effect of always equal causes acting on always diverse individualities.

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#2,792

In spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the man who still harnesses an underground spring.

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#2,789

All that is most excellent in history is a result of singularly unstable equilibriums.
Nothing endures for sure, but the mediocre lasts longer.

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