All JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Quotes about “History”

“The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.”
“Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.”
“I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.”
“Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.”
“All our knowledge is symbolic.”
“We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.”
“We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.”
“He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.”
“The history of mankind is his character.”
“The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.”

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