“Absolute knowledge is an all-inclusive knowledge. If it is to be absolute, it cannot leave anything outside itself, not even error. It… — Julián Marías Copy Share Image
“Naskar is when Naskar is not (Sonnet 2550) Ask the dust of my footsteps on sands, where no history sleeps, the truth… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Welcome to Barrayar, son. Here you go: have a world of wealth and poverty, wrenching change and rooted history. Have a birth;… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know -… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The… — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“A word of caution, then, is necessary when a statement is made by a scientist turned philosopher, just as a word of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“She, whose life had blown up, emptying her of history and leaving in its place only that dark dream of majesty, that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Doctor Mengele is such a powerful character historically, as powerful as Nazism itself, so these subjects always tend to be the protagonists.… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
“Make yourself interesting to history. Master some aspect of life, and then find a different area and do something crazy. Become a… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Even if this battle against Satan concerns all men and all times, there is no doubt that Satan’s power is felt more… — Gabrielle Amorth Copy Share Image
The history with wide receivers, I follow it pretty close. I look at Art Monk, I look at Lynn Swann, I look… — Cris Carter Copy Share Image
. . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All I could do was try to build a new life and find a way somehow to repair some of the damage.… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If we study history and anthropology we will find that all over the world the original people are Black people who migrated… — Runoko Rashidi Copy Share Image
“While many Greeks (although not Thucydides) thought that history moved in circles, repeating itself infinitely, the Jewish idea that each event was… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is one of the distinguishing marks of history as an academic discipline – the better you know a particular historical period,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“I've said it before, history repeats itself for those who don't learn from the past. Can we please learn from all this?… — L.M. Fields Copy Share Image
History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I'm still convinced that - I'm sorry to say - the body of evidence shows that the planet is warming up. And… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
You have a long history of changes in diagnosis, from no touching to touching, to assessing acoustics and visuals. But visual is… — Don Ihde Copy Share Image
“To preserve our absolute categories or ideals at the expense of human lives offends equally against the principles of science and of… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“God is above the world, and is also above sin and all evil. He allowed it because he could expiate it. So… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“The whole book is posing a question. You think you've won a war - what you've done is finish a war. There… — William Golding Copy Share Image
True to their history, the English are very domineering and have manipulated it in different ways. I wouldn't say that there was… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“The founders of Freemasonry—whoever they were—were certainly aware of the history of the Templars, and they were clearly inspired by Templar ideals:… — Mark E. Kolko-Rivera Copy Share Image
When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
“There are situations that a nation may be in, in which peace or war, abstracted from every other consideration, may be politically… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“History is a strange creature. It has the amazing ability to blind us with our own reflection when we peek over its… — Yanko Tsvetkov Copy Share Image
I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
When I was exposed to the history and the cultural background of why women whose husbands die, why they have to become… — Deepa Mehta Copy Share Image
