#2,781

Man’s freedom does not free him from necessity.
But twists it into unforeseeable consequences.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446

#2,774

The spectacle of humanity does not acquire a certain dignity except thanks to the distortion it undergoes in history due to time.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 445

#2,773

“Historical necessity” is usually just a name for human stupidity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 445

#2,772

Nobody is ignorant of the fact that historical events are made up of four factors: necessity, coincidence, spontaneity, freedom.
Nevertheless, it is rare to find a historiographical school that does not seek to reduce them to a single factor.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 445

#2,770

The notion of determinism has exercised a corrupting and terrorizing influence on the task of philosophy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444

#2,769

There is no coincidence in history that does not submit to the coincidence of the circumstances.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444

#2,767

Determining what is the cause and what is the effect tends to be an insoluble problem in history.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444

#2,764

There is no social science so exact that the historian does not need to correct and adapt it to be able to use it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444

#2,763

In history, understanding the individual and understanding the general condition each other reciprocally.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444

#2,762

Grand theories of history become useful when they give up trying to explain everything.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 443

#2,757

Everything in history begins before where we think it begins, and ends after where we think it ends.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 443

#2,750

Falsifying the past is how the left has sought to elaborate the future.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 442

#2,748

Between the causes of a revolution and its realization in actions ideologies insert themselves which end up determining the course and even the nature of events.
“Ideas” do not “cause” revolutions, but channel them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 441

#2,729

Man does not have the same density in every age.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 439

#2,727

To know an historical episode well consists in not observing it through democratic prejudices.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438

#2,721

The most ironic thing about history is that foreseeing is so difficult and having foreseen so obvious.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438

#2,677

Without literary talent the historian inevitably falsifies history.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 431

#2,676

History exhibits too many useless corpses for any finality to be attributed to it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 431

#2,673

When one is confronted by diverse “cultures,” there are two symmetrically erroneous attitudes: to admit only one cultural standard, and to grant all standards the same rank.
Neither the overweening imperialism of the European historian of yesterday, nor the shameful relativism of the European historian of today.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 431

#2,667

Until the end of the 18th century, what man added to nature increased its beauty.
Since then, what he adds destroys it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 430