History Quote by Alasdair MacIntyre Download Open image ““The concept of a person is that of a character abstracted from a history.”” — Alasdair MacIntyre ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“a person should be defined by the sum of his experiences and the choices he made.” — Kel Kade Copy Share Image
“History teaches us many things. Most importantly, the things that made us who and what we are.” — Robert Bonville Copy Share Image
“I must talk, and you must listen, for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning. What… — John Green Copy Share Image
“the issue in historical explanation is to explain the character and not the mere occurrence of events. A historical event is not an atomic,… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“I am a bundle of other people's histories, a creature of circumstance.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“My goal is to make history come alive. My fictitious characters are woven into the tapestry of actual history.” — C.B. Huesing Copy Share Image
“I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“In other words, that works of history are mere collections of facts. It is fiction alone that can show us the true nature of… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles, the notions… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“the characterization of actions allegedly prior to any narrative form being imposed upon them will always turn out to be the presentation of what… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“Indeed, one of the functions of the structures of normality is that by making it unnecessary for almost everybody almost all the time to… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention. — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man, and the virtues necessary for the seeking… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere. — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“The true genre of the life is neither hagiography nor saga, but tragedy.” — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed. — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
