Historical Sense Quotes by Robert Penn Warren

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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… — 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… — 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… — Marie Curie
• Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its… — Leo Tolstoy
• Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history… — 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… — Walter Lippmann

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