The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
One of the great things about being an older person is that I am very aware of the scope of the work… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
“The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“History, I always think, is our reality check. And understanding it in places like Liverpool's International Slavery Museum is an essential part… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In historical events great men-so called-are but the labels that serve to give a mane to an event, and like labels, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Consciously a man lives on his own account in freedom of willbut he serves as an unconscious instrument in bringing about the… — Leo Tolstoy 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
Life cannot be destroyed for good, neithercan history be brought entirely to a halt. A secret streamlet trickles on beneath the heavy… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“When I look at this age with the eye of a distant future, I find nothing so remarkable in the man of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
