The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing. — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
“We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation,… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
“If it’s only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on.” —Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Blackthorn” — Jina Bacarr Copy Share Image
Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin. — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The people themselves are not a homogeneous cultural collectivity but present numerous and variously combined cultural stratifications which, in their pure form,… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiences of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The question 'Why white kids love hip-hop?' forces us immediately to deal with the historical weight of race in America. On the… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
What exhibit buildings God will have! The historical exhibits, the scientific exhibits, the spiritual exhibits, to be able to see the marvelous… — David Berg Copy Share Image
To be a successful soldier you must know history. . . . What you must know is how man reacts. Weapons change… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
I believe that the Europeans, first and foremost, the Germans, will also understand me. Let me remind you that in the course… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
The more you learn about yourself and your family tree, your self-esteem goes up. They will learn archival skills, historical analysis and… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The English language [during the Elizabethan era] wasn't standardized. There were no official dictionaries. There was no cultural belief that words should… — Bayard Louis Copy Share Image
It’s my own fault, really. For believing in fairy tales. Not that I ever mistook them for actual historical fact, or anything.… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Juventus is an historical club, and many great players have played there. — Gonzalo Higuain Copy Share Image
I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
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