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Image of Stephen Jay Gould
Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Collection: Historical
Image of Heinrich Heine
Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.
- Heinrich Heine
Collection: Historical
Image of Francois Hollande
Mitterrand had a sense for symbols, and he was the first Socialist president since 1958. He wanted to show that there is historical continuity, a connection with the great figures of French history.
- Francois Hollande
Collection: Historical
Image of E. W. Howe
One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.
- E. W. Howe
Collection: Historical
Image of Mike Huckabee
Now the question is, now that we are there, what should we do in the best interest of the U.S., not only from a standpoint of the necessity of some stable democracy in the Middle East.
- Mike Huckabee
Collection: Historical
Image of William Monahan
On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing.
- William Monahan
Collection: Historical
Image of Paul Auster
Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.
- Paul Auster
Collection: Historical
Image of Thomas Jefferson
Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Historical
Image of Carl Jung
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.
- Carl Jung
Collection: Historical
Image of Samuel Johnson
Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Historical
Image of Samuel Johnson
Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Historical
Image of Samuel Johnson
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Historical
Image of Thomas Jefferson
Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Historical
Image of Thomas Huxley
The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of these successive forms, as stages of evolution of the same type, is established in various cases.
- Thomas Huxley
Collection: Historical
Image of George Henry Lewes
Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully suppressed all, or nearly all, the absurdities, and only retained what seemed plausible and consistent. But in this procedure their historical significance disappears.
- George Henry Lewes
Collection: Historical
Image of Jonathan Lethem
As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.
- Jonathan Lethem
Collection: Historical
Image of Julian Barnes
The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.
- Julian Barnes
Collection: Historical
Image of Karl Marx
In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.
- Karl Marx
Collection: Historical
Image of Elliott Sober
"Tiger is a natural kind" and "Tiger is a historical particular" are incompatible with each other, and evolutionary biology provides a reason for favoring the latter over the former.
- Elliott Sober
Collection: Historical
Image of Herbert Marcuse
The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.
- Herbert Marcuse
Collection: Historical
Image of Thomas B. Macaulay
History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.
- Thomas B. Macaulay
Collection: Historical
Image of Thomas B. Macaulay
The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.
- Thomas B. Macaulay
Collection: Historical
Image of John Adams
My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.
- John Adams
Collection: Historical
Image of Herbert Marcuse
Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false consciousness, but a rather consciousness of falsehood, a falsehood which is corrected in the context of the higher truth represented by the objective historical interest.
- Herbert Marcuse
Collection: Historical
Image of Dale Jamieson
If we don't have historical consciousness we can't really understand problems in all their dimensions, and if we can't understand problems than we can't find solutions.
- Dale Jamieson
Collection: Historical
Image of Thomas B. Macaulay
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.
- Thomas B. Macaulay
Collection: Historical
Image of Terence McKenna
History is rooted in the future
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Historical
Image of Karl Marx
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.
- Karl Marx
Collection: Historical