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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era… — George Steiner
I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If the resurrection of… — Pinchas Lapide
Whatever else may be thought of the evidence from early Jewish and Gentile writers it does at least establish, for those who refuse the witness… — F. F. Bruce
Jesus means something to our world because a mighty spiritual force streams forth from him and flows through our being also. This fact can neither… — Albert Schweitzer
The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every betrayal, every hateful… — Lloyd deMause
If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as… — John Haynes Holmes
Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked… — Adrienne Rich
Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be… — Edward Said
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He… — Rebecca West
We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and… — Noam Chomsky
It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just as the account of the… — Wayne Grudem
For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and… — Adolf Hitler
The People's Liberation Army is always a fighting force. Even after countrywide victory, our army will remain a fighting force during the historical period in… — Mao Zedong
All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly… — Joseph Epstein
In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event… — Leo Tolstoy
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical… — Freeman Dyson
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts. — Barbara Cartland
A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies:… — Albert Camus
When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The only Bible-honoring conclusion is, of course, that Genesis 1-11 is actual historical truth, regardless of any scientific or chronological problems thereby entailed. — Henry M. Morris
From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source… — Carl Jung
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt… — Peter Straub
The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical. And that is… — Rick Santorum
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch… — Edmund Husserl

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