"History is philosophy teaching by example, and also……" — James A. Garfield
"History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology."
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History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image…
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Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of…
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The only way we can determine the true age of the earth is for God to tell us what it…
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— W G Sebald
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A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and…
— Peter Medawar
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— Melissa Rosenberg
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— Max Lerner
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— Hank Stuever
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Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and…
— Virginia Woolf
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The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.
— Lidia Yuknavitch
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Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever…
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