Bias Quote by Raymond Geuss

Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really equal or…

— Allan Bloom

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible

— Francis Parker Yockey

Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem…

— Paul Johnson

“To deny that a “human nature” exists is the ideological trick the optimist employs to defend himself against history.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

— Ted Koppel

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against…

— Anais Nin

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

A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a…

— Rollo May

“The hardest task for the historian… is to consider the evidence without prejudice. We all have prior agendas and tend to find what we’re…

— Christopher Evans

History is philosophy learned from examples

— Anonymous

Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because…

— Hannah Arendt