Absolutes Quote by Crane Brinton Download Open image “The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.” — Crane Brinton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absolutes Doctrine Events Events in history History Nonsense Seems Uniqueness
A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true. — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the central issue… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“History is a construct...Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary. Still there are definitive moments...We can look at these events… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories;… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“It is a precisely datable historical event having the full weight that real historical happenings have; like them, too, it happens once only; it… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas. — Pyotr Chaadayev Copy Share Image
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
“No centrism based on the temporary historical "glory" of any nation or region should any longer be allowed to distort our universal human understanding… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They became actual revolutions instead of mere discussions, complaints and rioting, only after revolutionists had beaten, or won over, the armed forces of the… — Crane Brinton Copy Share Image
“The difference between force and persuation is a subtile one not to be drawn by formulas, by force, by science, or textbooks but by… — Crane Brinton Copy Share Image
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
So many times we come to Jesus in worship and ask Him for things that He already IS and has already done... What a… — Christy Nockels Copy Share Image
Those are decisions only the Lord will make. I believe the love of God is absolute. He said he gave his son for the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“The Gods know what it is to be eternal, and they love to toy with mortals who use absolutes.” — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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