Configuration Quote by Edward Said

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

— Wilhelm Dilthey

Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.

— Gerard Cox

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

— C. Wright Mills

It is impossible to understand history, international politics, the world economy, religions, philosophy, or ‘patterns of culture’ without taking geography into account.

— Kenneth C. Davis

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

— Bernard Baruch

One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without…

— Gottfried Leibniz

The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood,…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a…

— Abraham Maslow

Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.

— Heinz von Foerster

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

— Robert M. Hutchins

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

— Everett Dirksen

Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.

— Joe Orton