“History is a symptom of our disease”— Mao Zedong Related Quotes “Human history in essence is the history of ideas.”– H. G. Wells “Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.”– John Dewey “you live through . . . that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up of all the other lives that are simultaneous with yours. It is, in other words, History, and what you are is an expression of History.”— Robert Penn Warren