De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.