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Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.Collection: Historical
Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.Collection: Historical
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.Collection: Historical
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.Collection: Historical
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.Collection: Historical
On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing.Collection: Historical
Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.Collection: Historical
Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.Collection: Historical
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.Collection: Historical
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.Collection: Historical
Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.Collection: Historical
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.Collection: Historical
Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.Collection: Historical
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.Collection: Historical
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.Collection: Historical
As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.Collection: Historical
The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.Collection: Historical
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.Collection: Historical
"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.Collection: Historical
The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.Collection: Historical
History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.Collection: Historical
The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.Collection: Historical
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.Collection: Historical
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.Collection: Historical
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.Collection: Historical
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.Collection: Historical
History is rooted in the futureCollection: Historical
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.Collection: Historical