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We know only a single science, the science of history. One can look at history from two sides and divide it into the history of nature and the history of men. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.
(Karl Marx (1818-1883), German social philosopher, revolutionary, and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), German philosopher. repr. In Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Collected Works, vol. 5 (1976). The German Ideology, sect. 1, footnote (1845-1846).
This note was crossed out in the finished version.)
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
(Karl Marx (1818-1883), German founder of Communist philosophy, and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), German founder of Communist philosophy. The Communist Manifesto, sec. 1, p. 22, Handbook of Marxism, International Publishers, New York (1935).
Marx's & Engels' theory of history.)
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A people without history
Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
Of timeless moments.
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American poet, critic. "Little Gidding," pt. 5, Four Quartets (1942).)
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All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "History," Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847).)
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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
(Karl Marx (1818-1883), German political theorist, social philosopher, and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), German political theorist, social philosopher. repr. In Karl Marx: Selected Works, vol. 1 (1942). The Communist Manifesto, sct. 1 (1848).)
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Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
(G.M. (George Macaulay) Trevelyan (1876-1962), British historian. English Social History, introduction (1942).)
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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
(Karl Marx (1818-1883), German political theorist, social philosopher, and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), German political theorist, social philosopher. repr. In Karl Marx: Selected Works, vol. 1 (1942). The Communist Manifesto, sct. 1 (1848).)
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Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.
(Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentinian author. (Essay first published 1951). "Pascal's Sphere," Other Inquisitions (1960), trans. (1964).)
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History takes time.... History makes memory.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. (Written 1932). "A Manoir," Last Operas and Plays, Rinehart (1949).)
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Perhaps universal history is the history of the diverse intonation of some metaphors.
(Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentinian author. "Pascal's Sphere" ["La esfera de Pascal" (1951)], Other Inquisitions [Otras inquisiciones] (1952).)
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