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Adam Ferguson : The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning. # History and Historians # Imagination # Humankind

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Alphonse De Lamartine : " Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. " # History and Historians # Imagination # Humankind

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Coretta Scott King : " There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. " # History and Historians # Imagination # Humankind

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Kenneth Ewart Boulding : " As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before. " # History and Historians # Imagination # Humankind

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Karl Marx : " In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will; these relations of production correspond to a definite stage of development of their material forces of production. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society - the real foundation, on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life determines the social, political and intellectual life process in general. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness. At a certain stage of their development, the material productive forces in society come in conflict with the existing relations of production, or - what is but a legal expression for the same thing - with the property relations within which they have been at work before. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into fetters. Then begins an epoch of social revolution. With the change of the economic foundation the entire immense superstructure is more or less rapidly transformed. In considering such transformations a distinction should always be made between the material transformation of the economic conditions of production, which can be determined with the precision of natural science, and the legal, political, religious, aesthetic or philosophic - in short, ideological forms in which men become conscious of this conflict and fight it out. Just as our opinion of an individual is not based on what he thinks of himself, so we can not judge of such a period of transformation by its own consciousness; on the contrary, this consciousness must be explained rather from the contradictions of material life, from the existing conflict between the social productive forces and the relations of production. No social order ever disappears before all the productive forces for which there is room in it have been developed; and new, higher relations of production never appear before the material conditions of their existence have matured in the womb of the old society itself. Therefore, mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation. In broad outlines we can designate the Asiatic, the ancient, the feudal, and the modern bourgeois modes of production as so many progressive epochs in the economic formation of society. The bourgeois relations of production are the last antagonistic form of the social process of production - antagonistic not in the sense of individual antagonism, but of one arising from the social conditions of life of the individuals; at the same time the productive forces developing in the womb of bourgeois society create the material conditions for the solution of that antagonism. This social formation constitutes, therefore, the closing chapter of the prehistoric stage of human society. " # History and Historians # Imagination # Humankind

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : " The history of mankind is his character. " # History and Historians # Imagination # Humankind

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Alexandre Dumas : " "You must teach me a small part of what you know," said Dantes, "if only to prevent your growing weary of me. I can well believe that so learned a person as yourself would prefer absolute solitude to being tormented with the company of one as ignorant and uninformed as myself. If you will only agree to my request, I promise you never to mention another word about escaping." The abbe smiled. "Alas, my boy," said he, "human knowledge is confined within very narrow limits; and when I have taught you mathematics, physics, history, and the three or four modern languages with which I am acquainted, you will know as much as I do myself. Now, it will scarcely require two years for me to communicate to you the stock of learning I possess." "Two years!" exclaimed Dantes; "do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so short a time?" "Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other." " # History and Historians # Imagination # Humankind

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H G Wells : " Human history in essence is the history of ideas. " # History and Historians # Imagination # Humankind

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Edward Gibbon : " History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. " # History and Historians # Imagination # Humankind

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Winston Churchill : " Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much to so few. " # History and Historians # Imagination # Humankind

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Willa Sibert Cather : " The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman. " # History and Historians # Imagination # Humankind

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Adam Ferguson: " Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate." # Animals # Culture # Freedom

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Adam Ferguson: " The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species." # Children # Parents and Parenting # Writers and Writing

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Adam Ferguson: " Love is an affection which carries the attention of the mind beyond itself, and is the sense of a relation to some fellow creature as to its object." # Love # Mind # Friends and Friendship

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Adam Ferguson: " Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarrelled, in troops and companies." # Argument # Quarrels # War

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Adam Ferguson: " We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy." # Controversy # Quarrels # Politicians and Politics

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Adam Ferguson: " Men are to be estimated, not from what they know, but from what they are able to perform" # Action

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Adam Ferguson: " The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning." # History and Historians # Imagination # Humankind

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Adam Ferguson: " …if we intend to pursue the history of our species in its further attainments, we may soon enter on subjects which will confine our observation to more narrow limits. The genius of political wisdom and civil arts appears to have chosen his seats in particular tracts of the earth, and to have selected his favourites in particular races of men." # Politicians and Politics # Genius # Wisdom

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Adam Ferguson: " Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design." # Action # The future # Age and Aging

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Adam Ferguson: " In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many." # Free Will # Depression # Equality

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