Analysis Quote by Michel Foucault

The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise…

— H. L. Mencken

Logic is the anatomy of thought

— John Locke

People have different ways of interpreting history.

— Nate Silver

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

— Dale Jamieson

“Logic is the science not of external forms of thought, but of the laws of development "of all material, natural and spiritual things", i.e.,…

— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“History cannot be logically constructed any more than a scientific event, if only because it involves the process of vague and indefinable concepts which…

— Ludwik Fleck

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

— Robin G. Collingwood

All history is the history of thought,

— Robin G. Collingwood

It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.

— Leonard Krieger

If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.

— James G. Frazer

History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.

— Terry Eagleton

Logic has virtually nothing to do with the way we think.

— David Mumford