Art history Quote by Charlotte Bydler

“it is geography—especially in the displaced form of departures, arrivals, farewells, exile, nostalgia, homesickness, belonging, and travel itself—that is at the core of my…

— Edward Said

“In these days, when all things and memories of the past are at length become not only subservient to, but submerged by, the matters…

— Ptahhotep

“For the first time we can perceive something of the real proportion of features and events on the stage of the whole world, and…

— Halford John Mackinder

“History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our…

— Herbert Butterfield

Very strange bridges are used to make the passage from one state of things to another; we may lose sight of them in our…

— Herbert Butterfield

“Geography is history in place, history is geography in time”

— Élisée Reclus

When the world changes, correlation goes away… Causals are what endure.

— Geoffrey Nunberg

“Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography is destiny, respond the historians. War”

— Mohsin Hamid

I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject as a…

— Andre Aciman

“history itself arises out of the adjacent possible.”

— Stuart A. Kauffman

“The history of ideas, then, is the discipline of beginnings and ends, the description of obscure continuities and returns, the reconstitution of developments in…

— Michel Foucault

“Our particular causality scheme has brought us to a modest and rudimentary, although in many respects heroic, series of explorations. But it is far…

— Carl Sagan