Historical Sense Quotes
8 quotes by 6 authors
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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
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A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
— Marie Curie
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Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big…
— Robert Penn Warren
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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk,…
— Walter Lippmann
Who Wrote These Historical Sense Quotes
6 authors contributed a total of 8 Historical Sense Quotes as follows: