Biographies Quote by C. Wright Mills

“P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.”

— C.Wright Mills

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the…

— Paul Auster

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and…

— Simone Weil

“We known the past - and shape our schemas about it - through memory, history, and relics but also through imagination. With such aids,…

— Wendy Griswold

Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted…

— Tudor Parfitt

The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the jumping-off place…

— Maya Angelou

History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.

— Ralph Davis

“People need history in order to know themselves, to build a sense of identity and pride, continuity, community, and hope for the future.”

— Douglas Preston

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and…

— Wilhelm Dilthey