History Quote by Jacques Ellul Download Open image “Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.” — Jacques Ellul ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Human experience Humans Nature of man Philosophy Repeats
“All conscious nature has experiences of pleasure and pain. Man alone can deliberately will the repetition of an experience. And repetition, experienced as such,… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
“Life: It is better not to wrap philosophy around such an inconceivable evolving beautiful mystery. If based on perception, alone; whatever the conclusion -… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
People tend to set themselves up in patterns; something happens, it hurts them, then something similar happens, and - it's happened again! It seems… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.' — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
It is inconceivable that the God who gives Himself in His Son to save us, should have created some people ordained to evil and… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“No society can last in conditions of anarchy. This is self-evident and I am in full agreement. But my aim is not the establishment… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The individual, in… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity. — Jacques Ellul 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… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
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… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
