Art Quote by Bernard DeVoto Download Open image “History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.” — Bernard DeVoto ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Chance Determinism Historical History Philosophy Tolerate
“To acknowledge that history is not deterministic is to acknowledge that it is just a coincidence that most people today believe in nationalism, capitalism… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“History is a construct...Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary. Still there are definitive moments...We can look at these events… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“so why study history? unlike physics and economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“So why study history? Unlike physics or economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and… — Marsha P. Johnson Copy Share Image
“I am skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, at least in the sense that knowledge of past follies will… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I just feel safer with the history that’s been more or less agreed upon. Or perhaps it’s that same paradox again: the history… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire. — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it. — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
The water of life was given to us to make us see for a while that we are more nearly men and women, more… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification.… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
