On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay,… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Probably, if we looked at Da Vinci or Michelangelo with care, we'd see a historical particularity that the work is not treated… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
“Her name is Arabelle.” Marius felt her name sink into his chest like a long-ago lullaby waiting to be sung again.” — Juliette Cross Copy Share Image
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget… — Jennifer Armstrong Copy Share Image
I don't think I have ever created an entire fiction piece or followed a historical piece and made that into a sermon. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
The more I started studying the historical Jesus, the man who lived 2,000 years ago... the more I started to realize that… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Slow down,’ he said, ‘so I can see how you do it,’ but she’d laughed and said, ‘I can’t slow down, if… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a historical action figure or treated like I'm dead. Like one of those people where they go,… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see,… — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
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