{"quotes":[{"text":"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["history","history-of-mankind","history","history-repeating-itself"],"id":2397,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"History is the collective consciousness of the then intellectuals and not just some numbers, time and events.","author":"Sunny Menon","tags":["consulting","devops-automation","enterprise-architecture","history-of-mankind","movies","riverlog-software","script-writing"],"id":6929,"author_id":"Sunny+Menon"},{"text":"We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["beautiful","book","curious","education","enthusiasm","great-men","great-souls","great-women","history","history-of-mankind","imagination","inspiration","lifelong-learner","literature","passion","philosophers","philosophy-of-life","positivity","powerful-words","reading","religion","seeking","self-discovery","self-education","thoughts"],"id":12835,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"In the social production which men carry on they 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 powers of production. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society—the real foundation, on which rise legal and political superstructures and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production in material life determines the general character of the social, political and spiritual processes of life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but, on the contrary, their social existence determines their consciousness.","author":"Karl Marx","tags":["consiousness","dialectic","history-of-mankind","materialism"],"id":17525,"author_id":"Karl+Marx"},{"text":"As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground.","author":"David S. Landes","tags":["history-of-mankind","sociology"],"id":21372,"author_id":"David+S.+Landes"},{"text":"And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars--all over Europe, all over the world. 'Sometimes in the private interest of royal families,' Satan said, 'sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose--there is no such war in the history of the race.","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["history-of-mankind","life","stupidity","war"],"id":33612,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"},{"text":"But if the history of mankind was her own history, in a way she was thousands of years old.","author":"Jostein Gaarder","tags":["history","history-of-mankind","philosophy"],"id":53150,"author_id":"Jostein+Gaarder"},{"text":"Men recorded their experiences and called it history; men looked about the world and called their observations science; men wondered about the existence of God and the problem of evil and called their speculations theology; men did handiwork and called it art; men made up stories, wrote them down and called them literature; men thought about such topics as truth, beauty, justice, and the nature of existence and called their opinions philosophy.","author":"Linda Tschirhart Sanford","tags":["gender","history-of-mankind"],"id":59225,"author_id":"Linda+Tschirhart+Sanford"},{"text":"If you don’t know history,you don’t know anything.”Edward Johnston.","author":"Richard Puz","tags":["current-affairs","history-of-mankind","philosophical-musings","resolving-problems","understanding"],"id":65345,"author_id":"Richard+Puz"},{"text":"WAKE UP NOW...You will become a history one day...Even if you are most important, most powerful, most wanted or most influential individual on the planet. THAT’S IT!","author":"Aditya Ajmera","tags":["awarness","death","ego","history-of-mankind","impermeance","influential","power","spiritual-wisdom","wake-up"],"id":69649,"author_id":"Aditya+Ajmera"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":47,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}