“What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...”

“Clearly,” I said, “we should choose not to have good sense, if that good sense contributes to our misery.” Everyone agreed with me, and yet I found no one who wanted to accept the bargain of becoming ignorant in order to become content. From this I concluded that though we greatly value happiness, we place even greater value on reason.But yet, upon reflection, it seems that to prefer reason to happiness is to be quite insane.”

“History should be written as philosophy.”

“History is the study of the world's crime”

“History never repeats itself. Man always does.”

“All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.”

“Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?”