History Quote by Hippolyte Taine Download Open image “History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.” — Hippolyte Taine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Inspirational Mechanic Physics Problem Psychology
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational" explanations... "and… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
“so why study history? unlike physics and economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“So why study history? Unlike physics or economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex. — Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges Copy Share Image
There are four varieties in society — the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest. — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest. — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
“Not only does the State do the work badly on a domain not its own, bunglingly, at greater cost, and with less fruit than spontaneous organizations, but, again, through the legal monopoly which it deems its prerogative, or through the overwhelming competition which it exercises, it kills or paralyzes these natural organizations or prevents their birth; and hence so many… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share
For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel. — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper. — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the… — Angela Merkel Copy Share
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
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