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History is a pageant and not a philosophy.
— Augustine Birrell
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
— Robert Darnton
As far back as history records people thinking, thinking peoplehave been befuddled by the mysteries of life and existence. — Lewis N. Roe
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Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
— Auguste Rodin
Mythology, in other words, is psychology misread as biography, history, and cosmology.
— Joseph Campbell
For history is made with tools, not with ideas; and everything is changed by economic conditions - art, philosophy, love, virtue - truth itself!
— Joseph Conrad
In the history of mankind, no single person yet has learned to swim by having the strokes explained. At some point, they dive in.
— Charles Martin
There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.
— Russell Hoban
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
— John Stuart Mill
I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.
— Connor Jessup
Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult.
— Adam Nevill
A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
— Ferdinand Christian Baur
History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.
— Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
History, by definition, cannot be experienced directly. As it is happening, it is the present, and that is philosophy's realm.
— Brandon Sanderson
The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever
— Westminster Shorter Catechism
Science does nothing for man spiritually, and organized religion demands blind faith in illogical liturgy that was never meant to be taken literally!
— Fred Van Lente
I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.
— Peter Ackroyd
Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Europe is made of history,America of philosophy,
Asia of prosperity,
and Africa of opportunity. — Sami Leino
Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and philosophy.
— Patrick Mendis
Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.
— Karl Jaspers
Throughout history there have been those who have created change, and others who have feared it.
— T.A. Uner
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
— F. Sionil Jose
Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.
— Dejan Stojanovic
India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.
— George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
— James A. Garfield President Of The United States
What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.
— Peter Singer
Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
— Francis Bacon
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
— Albert Einstein
To eradicate blindness, let us expand our vision. Let us dream and take actions to make blindness a history from the past.
— Debasish Mridha
History is the great dust-heap ... a pageant and not a philosophy.
— Augustine Birrell
I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty.
— Craig M. Mullaney
