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Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations. — Joseph Campbell
No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease… — Sigmund Freud
Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to… — B.F. Skinner
The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through the… — Max Horkheimer
During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception… — Walter Benjamin
If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events… — Jurgen Habermas
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy,… — Karl Marx
So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the… — Karl Marx
However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their on the plain… — Louis Althusser
It's very much to do with how I'm feeling ... I love to be experimental and use eclectic mismatched things and put them together to… — Bat for Lashes
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He… — Willem de Kooning
Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris of historical trauma,… — Joy Harjo
The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself'as a product of the historical processes to date,… — Antonio Gramsci
In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about… — Oliver Stone
Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it… — Ang Lee
It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago.… — Mahatma Gandhi
I invented the historical spy novel. — Alan Furst
My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work… — Jean Nouvel
Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of… — Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind. — Mary Ritter Beard
Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth,… — John Fowles

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