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title: "32 History Philosophy Quotes by 22 authors"
description: "Browse 32 History Philosophy quotes by 22 authors. Discover the best History Philosophy sayings and thoughts."
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> [History is philosophy teaching by experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/history-is-philosophy-teaching-by-experience/)

[Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/)

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> [History is Philosophy teaching by example.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thucydides/history-is-philosophy-teaching-by-example/)

[Thucydides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thucydides/)

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> [History is philosophy learned from examples](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/history-is-philosophy-learned-from-examples/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/napoleon-bonaparte/skepticism-is-a-virtue-in-history-as-well-as-in-philosophy/)

[Napoleon Bonaparte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/napoleon-bonaparte/)

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> [History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-st-john-1st-viscount-bolingbroke/history-is-philosophy-teaching-by-example-and-also-by-warning/)

[Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-st-john-1st-viscount-bolingbroke/)

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> [Philosophy is the history of philosophy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel/philosophy-is-the-history-of-philosophy/)

[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel/)

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> [History is Philosophy teaching by examples.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/history-is-philosophy-teaching-by-examples/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-st-john-1st-viscount-bolingbroke/i-have-read-somewhere-or-other-in-dionysius-of-halicarnassus-i-think/)

[Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-st-john-1st-viscount-bolingbroke/)

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> [As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-jaspers/as-a-universal-history-of-philosophy-the-history-of-philosophy-must/)

[Karl Jaspers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-jaspers/)

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> [As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-lynch/as-i-look-back-on-it-now-it-s-obvious-that-studying-history-and/)

[Peter Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-lynch/)

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> [The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/the-history-of-philosophy-is-to-a-great-extent-that-of-a-certain/)

[William James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-james/)

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> [History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-a-garfield/history-is-philosophy-teaching-by-example-and-also-warning-its-two/)

[James A. Garfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-a-garfield/)

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> [“Lord Bolingbroke, who was an eighteenth-century political philosopher, called history “philosophy taught with examples.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mccullough/lord-bolingbroke-who-was-an-eighteenth-century-political-philosopher/)

[David McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mccullough/)

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> [“The history of philosophy is, to a great extent, that of a certain clash of human temperaments…Of whatever temperament a philosopher is,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/the-history-of-philosophy-is-to-a-great-extent-that-of-a-certain-2/)

[William James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-james/)

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> [The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-jaspers/the-history-of-philosophy-is-not-like-the-history-of-the-sciences-to/)

[Karl Jaspers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-jaspers/)

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> [The history of philosophy is actually full of people who argue for rather wild and incredible views, and their reputations are based…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-nozick/the-history-of-philosophy-is-actually-full-of-people-who-argue-for/)

[Robert Nozick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-nozick/)

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> [Oddly, since by now I've written quite a lot on early modern philosophers, I didn't care for the history of philosophy, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-wilson/oddly-since-by-now-i-ve-written-quite-a-lot-on-early-modern/)

[Catherine Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-wilson/)

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> [No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/no-method-nor-discipline-can-supersede-the-necessity-of-being-forever/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tadao-ando/italy-is-full-of-historical-buildings-and-europe-holds-a-great/)

[Tadao Ando](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tadao-ando/)

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> [What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernhard-schlink/what-i-really-like-about-law-is-that-it-s-not-an-endless-discourse/)

[Bernhard Schlink](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernhard-schlink/)

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> [The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-jaspers/the-great-philosophers-and-the-great-works-are-standards-for-the/)

[Karl Jaspers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-jaspers/)

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> [The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-sublime-can-only-be-found-in-the-great-subjects-poetry-history/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-goldstein/i-was-trained-as-a-philosopher-never-to-put-philosophers-and-their/)

[Rebecca Goldstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-goldstein/)

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> [“15. “Master Filippus believes that three disciplines define us as humans,” Miri said while they walked to the peat pits. “History, Philosophy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-hale/15-master-filippus-believes-that-three-disciplines-define-us-as/)

[Shannon Hale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-hale/)

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> [Even those who specialize in the history of philosophy often ignore the political and cultural context, and the natural world in which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-jamieson/even-those-who-specialize-in-the-history-of-philosophy-often-ignore/)

[Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-jamieson/)

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> [I am opposing it with an idea of the history of philosophy as a history of philosophers, that is, a history of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-critchley/i-am-opposing-it-with-an-idea-of-the-history-of-philosophy-as-a/)

[Simon Critchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-critchley/)

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> [“I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-goldstein/i-was-trained-as-a-philosopher-never-to-put-philosophers-and-their-2/)

[Rebecca Goldstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-goldstein/)

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> [“...It would hardly be a waste of time if sometimes even the most advanced students in the cognitive sciences were to pay…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/it-would-hardly-be-a-waste-of-time-if-sometimes-even-the-most/)

[Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/)

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> [“If philosophy had the power to establish incontrovertible truths, immune to doubt, and if philosophers were as a rule wholly disinterested practitioners…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bentley-hart/if-philosophy-had-the-power-to-establish-incontrovertible-truths/)

[David Bentley Hart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-bentley-hart/)

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> [“But while we are confined to books, though the most select and classic, and read only particular written languages, which are themselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/but-while-we-are-confined-to-books-though-the-most-select-and-classic/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“The history of philosophy, and perhaps especially of moral, social and political philosophy, is there to prevent us from becoming too readily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-history-of-philosophy-and-perhaps-especially-of-moral-social-and/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/what-is-a-course-of-history-or-philosophy-or-poetry-no-matter-how/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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                        "text": "“I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to do with the validity of the philosopher's positions. I agree that assessing validity and contextualizing historically are two entirely distinct matters and not to be confused with one another. And yet that firm distinction doesn't lead me to endorse the usual way in which history of philosophy is presented. ... The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discourse. The subject is far more interesting than that. ... When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach seem natural, then your questions concern the context of discovery. When you ask whether the argument the philosopher puts forth to answer that question is sound, or whether the evidence justifies the scientific theory proposed, then you've entered the context of justification. Considerations of history, sociology, anthropology, and psychology are relevant to the context of discovery, but not to justification. You have to keep them straight… ...(T)he assessment of those intuitions in terms of the argument's soundness isn't accomplished by work done in the context of discovery. And conversely, one doesn't diminish a philosopher's achievement, and doesn't undermine its soundness, by showing how the particular set of questions on which he focused, the orientation he brought to bear on his focus, has some causal connection to the circumstances of his life (pp. 160-161).”",
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                        "text": "“If philosophy had the power to establish incontrovertible truths, immune to doubt, and if philosophers were as a rule wholly disinterested practitioners of their art, then it might be possible to speak of progress in philosophy. In fact, however, the philosophical tendencies and presuppositions of any age are, to a very great degree, determined by the prevailing cultural mood or by the ideological premises generally approved of my the educated classes. As often as not, the history of philosophy has been a history of prejudices masquerading as principles, and so merely a history of fashion. It is as possible today to be an intellectually scrupulous Platonist as it was more than two thousand years ago; it is simply not in vogue.”",
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