Quotes About History

In 1943, incoming college freshmen—only 6 percent of whom could list the original thirteen colonies—named Abraham Lincoln as the first president and the one who "emaciated [sic] the slaves." The

To some extent the history of plagiarism is a history of notebooks.

Nazism and communism were the same thing; every man on the street knew it. The difference between them was a semantical matter for the fancier poli-sci professors at Fordham.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

The harp that once through Tara's hallsThe soul of music shed,Now hangs as mute on Tara's wallsAs if that soul were fled.

Maybe you were supposed to move forward armed with just enough history to help you figure out the present without obsessing over the past. But how much was enough? Where was the gray area between ignorance and obsession?

too many hypotheses and systems of thought in philosophy and elsewhere are based on the bizarre view that we, at this point in history, are in possession of the basic forms of understanding needed to comprehend absolutely anything.

If we continue to assume that we are parts of the physical world and that the evolutionary process that brought us into existence is part of its history, then something must be added to the physical conception of the natural order that allows us to explain how it can give rise to organisms that are more than physical. The resources of physical science are not adequate for this purpose, because those resources were developed to account for data of a completely different kind.

What mighty ills have not been done by woman!Who was 't betrayed the Capitol?—A woman!Who lost Mark Antony the world?—A woman!Who was the cause of a long ten years' war,And laid at last old Troy in ashes?—Woman!Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one of America's darkest hours.

From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom

It is not the antiquity of a tale that is an evidence of its truth; on the contrary, it is a symptom of its being fabulous; for the more ancient any history pretends to be, the more it has the resemblance of a fable.

the Jewish nation, immediately on the death of Solomon, split into two parties, who chose separate kings, and who carried on most rancorous wars against each other.

In reviewing the history of the English government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

The House of Commons did not originate as a matter of right in the people to delegate or elect, but as a grant or boon.

Monarchy and succession have laid (not this or that kingdom only) but the world in blood and ashes.

H?ristiyan inanc?n?n destekçileri ya da taraftarlar? inanmasa ya da kabul etmese de cehalet dönemi H?ristiyanl?k sistemiyle baÅŸlam??t?r

H?ristiyan kilisesi ad? verilen kuram?n pagan mitolojisinin kuyruÄŸuna tak?l?p yeÅŸerdiÄŸini gözlemlemek ilgi çekicidir.

Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals; but, however unwilling the partisans of the Christian system may be to believe or to acknowledge it, it is nevertheless true that the age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

It is an interesting fact that in history there are recorded numerous incidents in which factors present themselves which are not classed as normal mental activities, and which cannot be classed, justly, as abnormal, but which we may call supernormal, inasmuch as they are the experiences of perfectly normal people, brought out under the stress of extraordinary circumstances.

It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments.

existentialism represents a long tradition in the history of philosophy in the West, extending back at least to Socrates (469–399 bc). This is the practice of philosophy as 'care of the self' (epimeleia heautou). Its focus is on the proper way of acting rather than on an abstract set of theoretical truths.