Quotes About History

Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.

I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.

[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the hostile light of philosophy and science.

Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy of retreat.

History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

It has been said that in order to pursue the history of Biblical interpretation, you must include the whole philosophy of the West, which informs it at every stage.

With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.

Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.

Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy.

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.

I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance.

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

Forgive them, you might say, for they know not what they do. But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense, a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve.

If you are kind enough today, history will sing your song and be kind to you.

The history of man is a must read poetry.

Time has witnessed events even before it's own birth without energy.

Don't waste our children's future on man's past.