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Post by Tamrin on Jul 1, 2010 7:25:14 GMT 10
Every historian discloses a new horizon
Baroness Dudevant, a.k.a. "George Sand" (Born this day 1804)
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 3, 2010 9:05:26 GMT 10
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened
Franz Kafka (Born this day 1883)
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 26, 2010 6:56:19 GMT 10
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn
Aldous Huxley (Born this day 1894)
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 28, 2010 6:42:47 GMT 10
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life and one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world
Karl Popper (Born this day 1902)
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 5, 2010 6:33:16 GMT 10
The idea that political acts, grand performances of state, are decisive in history is as old as written history itself, and is the main reason why so little material has been preserved for us in regard to the really progressive evolution of the peoples which has taken place quietly, in the background, behind these noisy scenes on the stage
Friedrich Engels (Died this day 1895)
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 24, 2010 7:30:27 GMT 10
I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you, you must go to war for this or that reason - that history is a protective armor against being misled
Howard Zinn (Born this day 1922)
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 3, 2010 10:11:18 GMT 10
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make
William Morris (Died this day 1896)
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 4, 2010 8:01:20 GMT 10
If the unexamined life is not worth living, the unexamined past is not worth possessing; it bears fruit only by being held continuously up to the light, and is as changeable and as full of surprises, pleasant and unpleasant, as the future
Brendan Gill (Born this day 1914)
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 5, 2010 18:42:33 GMT 10
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice
It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time
Will Durant (Born this day 1885)
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 14, 2010 10:47:00 GMT 10
It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: "Is it true in and for itself?"
Georg W.F. Hegel (Died this day 1831)
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