Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the… — Benedetto Croce Copy Share Image
It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Tibetan, or other historical traditions, are all different streams in the same river, different currents in the same… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our… — David Frum Copy Share Image
The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
The roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself. They are always in the wider historical context. They require… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy, — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
If we define 'thought collective' as a community of persons mutually exchanging ideas or maintaining intellectual interaction, we will find by implication… — Ludwik Fleck Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how,… — Michael A. Ledeen Copy Share Image
When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself'as a product of the historical… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image