Famous Quotes

"We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it."

Jose Ortega y Gasset on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset

• "An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself."

• "Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."

• "Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself."

• "Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."

• "Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else."