I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
A nation lives forever through its concepts, honour, and culture. It is for these reasons that the rulers of nations must judge… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
“Then, after picking up his papers, Pierre began: “A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but… — Ted Anthony Roberts Copy Share Image
“The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
With high fashion, it's a performance. You're trying to interpret a fantasy in a very physical way, and you really are playing… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with… — Salman Khurshid Copy Share Image
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts. — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks. — Roger Caras Copy Share Image
The law of God, and also the way to life, is written in our hearts: It lieth in no man's supposition and… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Some people remember the sixties better than others do. Some weren't even there, some who were there were not really there, and… — Tom Hays Copy Share Image
Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Doctor Mengele is such a powerful character historically, as powerful as Nazism itself, so these subjects always tend to be the protagonists.… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image