Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
One cannot, without reflection, make some into bearers of goodness and others into miscreants, judging them by relative positive or negative criteria.… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
That is why the Aethenian law makers so decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. I am asking… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I first started writing historical fiction in the late '70s and kept pictures of Kathleen Woodiwiss and Rosemary Rogers on my refrigerator… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
The 'inquests' which resulted in the compilation of the Domesday Book made a vivid and unfavorable impression on the country. A similar… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
So these liberals say historical research can't possibly discover the Jesus of faith, because the Jesus of faith is not rooted in… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Cleverly assorted scraps of spurious science are inculcated upon the children to prove necessity of law; obedience to the law is made… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense… — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Their daughter scrunched up her hands and legs, waving them wildly in the air. He opened his palm, allowing the babe to… — Deeanne Gist Copy Share Image
I am myself persuaded, on the basis of extensive study of the historical evidence, that... the severity of each of the contractions… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's… — Mary Jo Bang Copy Share Image
You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Putin never wanted all of Ukraine. He wanted for historical purposes to take Crimea. He did. Then he wanted a part of… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
My first book was a historical novel. I started writing in 1974. In those days, historical novels meant ladies with swelling bosoms… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Horeb bent over me and ran his hand down my neck, not stopping when his fingers reached my chest. I jerked backward.… — Kimberley Griffiths Little Copy Share Image
One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world, we can better discover that destiny from the words… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents.… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
To me, healing means you have to recognize there is a wound and you try to understand what the sources of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“The Word of God is not fictional. It is factual, with information that is historical. It was not written to impress or… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
If Turkey become a member of the EU, of course Turks would lose a part of this identity, just as Europe would… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently,… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I'm pretty fortunate that I'm in the films I'm in largely because the directors have asked me to be in them. I'd… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
After reading The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi, I realized that capitalism did not naturally grow as [Karl] Marx would imply by… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and… — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
The effect on human consciousness of the experience of the Presence of God is subjectively transformative and identical throughout human history. It… — David Hawkins Copy Share Image
I did a co-authored book not so long ago that was an American historical romance set at the turn of the century.… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It's a historical thing, up to the 19th century the English hated the French. Then in the 20th century the English started… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
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