History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. — William James Copy Share Image
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“Lord Bolingbroke, who was an eighteenth-century political philosopher, called history “philosophy taught with examples.” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“The history of philosophy is, to a great extent, that of a certain clash of human temperaments…Of whatever temperament a philosopher is,… — William James Copy Share Image
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
The history of philosophy is actually full of people who argue for rather wild and incredible views, and their reputations are based… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Oddly, since by now I've written quite a lot on early modern philosophers, I didn't care for the history of philosophy, which… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“15. “Master Filippus believes that three disciplines define us as humans,” Miri said while they walked to the peat pits. “History, Philosophy,… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Even those who specialize in the history of philosophy often ignore the political and cultural context, and the natural world in which… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I am opposing it with an idea of the history of philosophy as a history of philosophers, that is, a history of… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“...It would hardly be a waste of time if sometimes even the most advanced students in the cognitive sciences were to pay… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“If philosophy had the power to establish incontrovertible truths, immune to doubt, and if philosophers were as a rule wholly disinterested practitioners… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“But while we are confined to books, though the most select and classic, and read only particular written languages, which are themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The history of philosophy, and perhaps especially of moral, social and political philosophy, is there to prevent us from becoming too readily… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
