History Quote by John Robert Seeley Download Open image “History without politics descends to mere Literature.” — John Robert Seeley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Inspirational Literature Love Mere Politics
Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
Can one understand politics without understanding history, especially the history of political thought, and will this distinguish political philosophy from some other kinds of… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb. — Ferdinand Christian Baur Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind. — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to… — John Robert Seeley 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
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