Quotes About History

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Pero el secreto! Vivir sin conocer el secreto del pasado... No saber quién fue, qué fue lo que fue... Resignarse así a ignorar... No tener la solución...

When the history of the earth enters a very critical period, as at present, the myths, gods and demons that direct us, the Archetypes, come to take an even more active part, becoming almost visible to many. They participate directly in the combat, as happened in the last world war, of cosmic resonance.... When the mythic slain SS were not destroying men, they were their immortal Gods in combat against other Entities, or Daemons. They were symbols against symbols.

Não conseguiu impedir-se de pensar se alguma vez, entre uma caçada e um concerto, D. Carlos se teria lembrado da missão que lhe confiara e do que ela poderia significar nas relações com Inglaterra.

The sacred books of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and the Veda are the best repositories of the ideas that mattered most to our ancestors, and to ignore them is an act of childish conceit. But it is equally naive to believe that whatever was written down in the past contains an absolute truth that lasts forever.

Neither parents nor schools are very effective at teaching the young to find pleasure in the right things. Adults, themselves often deluded by infatuation with fatuous models, conspire in the deception. They make serious tasks seem dull and hard, and frivolous ones exciting and easy. Schools generally fial to teach how exciting, how mesmerizingly beautiful science or mathematics can be; they teach the routine of literature or history rather than the adventure.

A large majority of our respondents were inspired by a tension in their domain that became obvious when looked at from the perspective of another domain. Even though they do not think of themselves as interdisciplinary, their best work bridges realms of ideas. Their histories tend to cast doubt on the wisdom of overspecialization, where bright young people are trained to become exclusive experts in one field and shun breadth like the plague.

At certain times in history cultures have taken it for granted that a person wasn't fully human unless he or she learned to master thoughts and feelings.

Oppression is often made possible by a new technological advance—sometimes as dramatic as the introduction of farming, sometimes as apparently trivial as the stirrup.

if Christ had returned to preach his message of liberation in the Middle Ages, he would have been crucified again and again by the leaders of that very church whose worldly power was built on his name.

according to Sorokin. More recent and disturbing examples might include the Nazi interlude in Germany, the communist regimes in Russia and China, and the Islamic revival in Iran.

Having a record of the past can make a great contribution to the quality of life. It frees us from the tyranny of the present, and makes it possible for consciousness to revisit former times.

AT CERTAIN TIMES in history cultures have taken it for granted that a person wasn't fully human unless he or she learned to master thoughts and feelings.

si Cristo hubiese regresado para predicar su mensaje de liberación en la Edad Media, habría sido crucificado de nuevo por los dirigentes de la misma iglesia cuyo poder mundano se había levantado en su nombre.

Each biblical parable, for instance, tries to encode the hard-won experience of many individuals over unknown eons of time.

Work as we know it now is a very recent historical development. It didn't exist before the great agricultural revolutions that made intensive farming possible about twelve thousand years ago.

Las razas desaparecen, los pueblos se levantan y se borran, los imperios se suceden y la gloria huye como una sombra. Pero seguid alzando vuestras murallas blancas sobre la ribera al pie de las montañas rojas...

K dlouhému vÄ›ku se druží ?asto zkalení zraku a sklon považovat dávnÄ›jÅ¡í doby za lepÅ¡í dneÅ¡ních.

For the sake of a woman's rippling laugh the goddess of history will tomorrow turn a fresh page in her great book.

Na pewno du?? rolÄ™ odgrywaÅ'o to, ?e jego mama pochodziÅ'a z Finlandii. ByÅ'a to zawsze milczÄ…ca kobieta z ciemi??onego narodu wyniszczonego zarówno wojnÄ… domowÄ…, WojnÄ… ZimowÄ… i dalszym ciÄ…giem walk, podczas gdy tÅ'usty zachodni sÄ…siad - Szwecja - wzbogaciÅ' siÄ™, sprzedajÄ…c Niemcom rudÄ™ ?elaza.

Given that (a) early feminists were steadfastly opposed to censorship and abortion, and (b) modern feminists are steadfastly committed to censorship and abortion, is it fair to say the feminist movement has lost its way? In other words, Diane, why can't you be more like Susan B. Anthony?

Now we can travel with more books stored in our telephones than the ancient Egyptians kept in their vast library at Alexandria.

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If the history of British rule in India were to be condensed into a single fact, it is this: there was no increase in India's per capita income from 1757 to 1947.