Quotes About History

I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

History should be written as philosophy.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.