Historical Quotes - page 6

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture. (Tadao Ando)
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. View quote
Walter Russell Mead
Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families. View quote
Junot Diaz
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing. View quote
Wilhelm Dilthey
If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in their historical youth, when their state of development was comparable to our own at the present time. Otherwise we should behave like boys who try to copy the imposing manners of full-grown men without understanding their raison d'être, also without seeing that in development one cannot jump over intermediate and preliminary phases. View quote
Wolfgang Köhler
Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent. View quote
Glen Cook
An inert historical fact is any fact about a perfectly ordinary arrangement of matter in the world at some point in the past that is no longer discernible, a fact that has left no footprints at all in the world today. View quote
Daniel Dennett
I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes. View quote
Jack L. Chalker
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have. View quote
Ken Follett
Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing. (Lee Strobel)
The most advanced, creative and original thinking is always a product of historical context and the influences of previous geniuses, mentors, and collaborators on the mind of the originator. View quote
Michael J. Gelb
One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia. View quote
Lynn Abbey
Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind. View quote
Ahad Ha'am
I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop. View quote
Antony Beevor
I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time. View quote
James Earl Jones
I think that if you get too close to the character, if you do too much historical research, you may find yourself defending your view of a character against the author's view, and I think that's terribly dangerous. View quote
Tim Curry
Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best. View quote
James C. Collins
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics. View quote
Ferdinand de Saussure
The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts. View quote
David Strauss
After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book. (Iris Chang)
I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills. View quote
Iris Chang
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic. View quote
Hu Shih
I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter. View quote
Aaron Eckhart
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies. View quote
Antonia Fraser