“But we don’t merely meet each other as unique individuals or in healthy social circumstances. We meet each other in the current… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Like all religious people, Christians repress, remember, and retell their core stories selectively. They emphasize this episode at the expense of that… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Contempt for theory, art, history, and for man as an end in himself, which is contained in an abstract form in the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
When I try to outline the history of ethical life, it's sometimes possible to find evidence for a hypothesis about how important… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and… — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Want a piggy back ride? Yes sir!! He crouches to give me a little help and I jump on his back. And… — Jade Copy Share Image
“American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and it lubricated… — Eric Jay Dolin Copy Share Image
“Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
I have this ideal listener, as John Cage did. This listener doesn't bring expectations that my music will fit into some part… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
The roe of the Russian sturgeon has probably been present at more important international affairs than have all the Russian dignitaries of… — James Beard Copy Share Image
“Whether Hindus or Greeks, Egyptians or Japanese, Chinese, Sumerians, or ancient Americans -- or even Romans, the most "modern" among people of… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
“ Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I think that even though The German Doctor (Wakolda) is placed in a historical context , it is a very intimate story.… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
“Fortunately for the historian, the court to which his evidence is submitted has no fixed term; interesting cases can be argued before… — John Boswell Copy Share Image
It's easy to be popular when you don't make the decisions a president makes. And it's easy to be unpopular when you're… — Dorothy Bush Koch Copy Share Image
“The history of an individual is a mystery to others. It is wonderful, fascinating, and motivating if revealed. The moment you learn… — Isaac Nash Copy Share Image
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“But if insecurity was the primal source of Hamilton's incredibly energy, one would have to conclude that providence had conspired to produce… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
It will take an unprecedented act of courage, on a grand scale. You may have to do something virtually unknown in the… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
All kids of all races need to understand, not just about black history but their own history. It's something that will help… — Andre Gray Copy Share Image
The first arrival of earthly life on another celestial body ranks as an epochal event not only for our generation, but in… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“Caligula was a pervert and a tyrant. If the Roman emperor had any redeeming qualities, they weren’t immediately obvious. Unencumbered by things… — Natalie Kyriacou Copy Share Image
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when… — Harry S Truman Copy Share Image
To fail to properly contextualize content has historically been the basis for the slaughter of millions of people in every century throughout… — David Hawkins Copy Share Image
“in all the years i had blundered along in search of my own footing, she had never given me an inkling of… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
'Hamilton' is a story about America, and the most beautiful thing about it is... it's told by such a diverse cast with… — Renee Elise Goldsberry Copy Share Image
In the history of photography, one process has always replaced another. The tumultuous realignment that's going on in the photography now is… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
“...nostalgia goes beyond individual psychology. At first glance, nostalgia is a longing for a place, but actually it is a yearning for… — Svetlana Boym Copy Share Image
As we have seen in our own history, the injection of new ideas from other worlds transformed life for all, and with… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds,… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The notion of women being written out of history is as old as the Bible, but it always seems more galling when… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
America is a melting pot for all different groups of people, historically. And it's rare that the story of all of these… — Nas Copy Share Image
“A behavior has occurred that is good, bad, or ambiguous. How have cultural factors stretching back to the origins of humans contributed… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Erasmus was the light of his century; others were its strength: he lighted the way; others knew how to walk on it… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“The hero is a device which the historian has taken over from the layman. He uses it because he has no scientific… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
