Historical Quotes

Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.

Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.

The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.

It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.

History knows no resting places and no plateaus

The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.

We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective.

By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be the end of the world if you ever succeed!

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.

A global economy requires a global currency.

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Thus, in setting an American agenda for a New World Order, we must begin with a profound alteration in traditional thought.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people

The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle.

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

Reeducation needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again ~ those indestructible weeds of historical truth.

Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.

The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves.

I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.

Many of those who scoff at the trustworthiness of the Bible do so completely overlooking the fact that thousands of archaeological discoveries have affirmed the historical reliability of the Bible.

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

It often happens that the mind of a person who is learning a new science has to pass through all the phases which the science itself has exhibited in its historical evolution.

America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.

The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.

In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

Capital dictates the fate of humanity.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.