Agree Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

“I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to do with…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

— Karl Jaspers

Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes.

— Phillip Guedala

There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in which the…

— Michel Foucault

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

I am opposing it with an idea of the history of philosophy as a history of philosophers, that is, a history of mortal, fragile…

— Simon Critchley

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in…

— Karl Jaspers

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

— Josh McDowell

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

— Herbert Read

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

— Dale Jamieson

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of…

— Benedetto Croce