But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“The poor were born survivors, but their equity was bound to the land—dwelling, farm, animals.” — Isham Cook Copy Share Image
The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
“History shows us a window into our past. Historical fiction can take us by the and and lead us into that world.” — Judith Geary Copy Share Image
A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings. — Nicola Cornick Copy Share Image
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Thought you didn't like red hair." One of Drew's dimples kicked in as he draped an arm about Grandma's shoulder. "Must have… — Deeanne Gist Copy Share Image
The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Fascinating, often hilarious, always devastatingly truthful, The Inconvenient Indian is destined to become a classic of historical narrative. For those who wish… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
The assassination at Sarajevo was certainly the crucial precedent of the European war that its conspirators had sought, but was not the… — J. Bowyer Bell Copy Share Image
Our reasons for believing Jesus existed and also that He was who He claimed to be - the God who came down… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
Kafka was a complex character in a complex historical era. In order to understand him, you have to do more than cite… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
The initiative of the Five Year Plan and of the accelerated collectivization belongs entirely to the Left Opposition, in uninterrupted and sharp… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“He lowered his voice. "You are a true shield-maiden; you do not turn from a scar on a man's face."I looked at… — Octavia Randolph Copy Share Image
“A hand stole around her mouth, silencing her, then his lips parting her tumbled hair: “The walls have ears.” She blinked, and… — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
I think Stephen Crane too becomes trapped in a myth that poetry should be operating at a certain level, that there's the… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
“There were three wedding cakes, curious and historical but tasty, each labeled with a calligraphed card: "Plumb Cake" with currants, nutmeg, mace,… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“A gripping historical novel . . . heart-stopping, heart-racing and eventually heart-easing.–Library Voice” — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
“In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor.” — James Franck Copy Share Image
The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being… — Georgina Chapman Copy Share Image
If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse. — Robert A. M. Stern Copy Share Image
There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it. — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places. — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“Ien stopped her voice with more kisses, more promises of a world filled with only them.” — Christine Fonseca Copy Share Image
