Historical Sense Quotes

8 quotes by 6 authors

• 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
• A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers. — Friedrich Nietzsche
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• 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:

• 2 Historical Sense Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
• 2 Historical Sense Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
• 1 Historical Sense Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
• 1 Historical Sense Quote by Marie Curie
• 1 Historical Sense Quote by Robert Penn Warren
• 1 Historical Sense Quote by Walter Lippmann