Historical Quotes - Page 17

• Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

  George Santayana

  Character, Past, Order

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.380, 谷月社

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• The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.

  Louis Moreau Gottschalk

  History, Variables, Judgment

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• I like the stories with the historical themes.

  Sarah Sutton

  Stories, Theme

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• I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he lived.

  Reza Aslan

  Jesus, Thinking, Hypothesis

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• I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Historical Novels, Stories, Wells

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• Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

  Raymond Queneau

  Character, Important, Novelists

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• I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Art, Periods, Historian

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• I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

  Michael Ignatieff

  War, Bosnians, Happened

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• The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur. -People who think they are trapped in a river of regularized and ever-repeating time are merely the victims of their own ordinarizing minds that have elaborated for them a prison-cell of everydayness. The fountains of time, history, life, inspiration, etc. are fresh every instant, if one knows how to grasp them with some finesse: every instant within natural, historical, and personal time is unique.

  Kenny Smith

  Memories, Philosophy, Inspiration

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• The works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men are circumscribed by time.

  Bruno Walter

  Men, Creative, World

  Bruno Walter, James Austin Galston (1946). “Theme and Variations: An Autobiography”, New York, Knopf

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• The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be arranged however one likes.

  Robert Musil

  Distance, Likes, Facts

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.117, University of Chicago Press

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• I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.

  Linda Lael Miller

  Writing, Stories, Variety

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• The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting.

  Julie Mehretu

  Hopeful, Political, Pessimistic

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• Christians aren't making a religious claim when they say Jesus rose from the grave. They're making a historical one; they're saying that this thing happened just as surely and really as it happened that Julius Caesar became emperor of Rome. It's the kind of claim that can be thought about and investigated; it can be judged.

  Greg Gilbert

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables, mistaken imitation of Egyptian theories and customs, historical chronicles as dry as they are unreliable and miscellaneous poems, amatory, human and Jewish-national, which is rarely distinguished by beauties of the highest order but frequently by superfluity of expression, coarseness, bad taste, and genuine Oriental sensuality.

  Max Nordau

  Book, Echoes, Expression

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• The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

  Larry Wall

  Brain, Way, Quantum

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• Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums. The term 'altermodern has its roots in the idea of 'other-ness (Latin alter = 'other, with English connotation of 'different) and suggests a multitude of possibilities, of alternatives to a single route. It suggests that the historical period defined by postmodernism is coming to an end, symbolised by global financial crises.

  Nicolas Bourriaud

  Stress, Latin, Ideas

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• I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

  Antonia Fraser

  Real, Interesting, Fiction

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• Coconut oil has been described as the “World's Healthiest Dietary Oil”. There is a mountain of historical evidence and medical research to verify this fact

  Bruce Fife

  Oil, Mountain, Research

  Bruce Fife (2005). “Eat Fat Look Thin: A Safe and Natural Way to Lose Weight Permanently”, p.12, Piccadilly Books, Ltd.

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• A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

  Ai Weiwei

  Mean, Ethics, Moral

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• This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

  Walter Russell Mead

  Britain And America, Degrees, Life Is

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• Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doubtful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2611, Delphi Classics

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• Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Long, History

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• We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again.

  Al Murray

  War, Years, History

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• I think deep down, this planet yearns for the days of the British Empire again. They long once more to be treated that badly, that politely. We did far worse things than you can possibly dream of, but we did it with that certainly gentlemanly swagger... Dreadfully sorry, but we seem to have crushed your entire continent's infrastructure. Allow me to make it up to you by offering you a job 4,000 miles away. No, no, I insist.

  John Oliver

  Dream, Jobs, Sorry

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