Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history ; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“For the first time (but how long will it take us to acknowledge this?) in the history of ideas, a philosopher had… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
If you're going to make comments on economy, study economy. If you're gonna make comments on world history, make sure you learn… — Yoel Romero Copy Share Image
All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
I just play to progressive audiences. You know, if they're watching Discovery Channel, History Channel, that kind of thing, "Monty Python" have… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
“When Kushim’s neighbours called out to him, they might really have shouted ‘Kushim!’ It is telling that the first recorded name in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If Jesus had been an actual historical figure we have a thorny paradox. Either this Jesus was a remarkable individual who said… — David Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
We now enter a new age of American history, and the question to be answered is this: Will we restore the republic… — Augustus Sol Invictus Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“It's a familiar moment to students of history: the late stage of empire, hairline fractures shooting through the foundations of society. They're… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
“Whenever he began to see me as something more than a liability or a weapon, whenever we spoke to each other without… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
“As a pauper, the obvious destination for James Tilly Matthews was the Bethlem Hospital, already long known in popular slang as Bedlam.… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
The only advice I can give you… is to examine who you are… Figure out what’s important to you. Know yourselves. Know… — J-Ax Copy Share Image
Considering how often throughout history even intelligent people have been proved to be wrong, it is amazing that there are still people… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Whoever would seek out his history through what unraveling of loins and ledgerbooks must stand at last darkened and dumb at the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“This is the threat to our lives that we all face today. Is the system going to flatten you out and deny… — Joseph Campbell 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
The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
“When historians and literary scholars talk about the classical heritage, or the legacy to Western civilization from antiquity, they are primarily thinking… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know… — Bernice Rubens Copy Share Image
We are in the greatest evolutionary transformation in the history of our species. We are expanding beyond the five senses. We are… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“All humans have their own morality, which is fluid between people, and, on a societal level, across space and time. That’s why… — David Silverman Copy Share Image
I can tell you what happens to countries that go bankrupt. I've been to Argentina. I'm familiar with the history of Mexico… — Porter Stansberry Copy Share Image
“The French army had crowned a campaign of extraordinary successes by defeating the Austrians at Jemappes and pressing on to occupy a… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
I repeat, not the man does it, because he has nothing to say on his own destiny, because how the history of… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
We've seen it time and again - Chinese companies don't play by the rules, committing intellectual property theft and disregarding basic regulatory… — Tommy Tuberville Copy Share Image
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things… — William James Will Durant Copy Share Image
This is not about you or me; it's about a horse making history. It's sacred. Most people don't remember the trainer or… — Bob Baffert Copy Share Image
The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
“The single book that has influenced me most is probably the last book in the world that anybody is gonna want to… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Ecology is the new theology; big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day scripture, and… — Michael Dowd Copy Share Image
As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant.… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“In running over the pages of our history for seven hundred years, we shall scarcely find a single great event which has… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,'… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I don't think that, when future generations look at the apartheid struggle, they will see it as quite the momentous literary cauldron… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“If England had not used the services of privateers and pirates during its long struggle with Spain, there is some likelihood that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
