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“History is a better guide than good intentions.”

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Jeane Kirkpatrick was an American political scientist and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1981 to 1985. She was known for her conservative views and her role in shaping U.S. foreign policy during the Reagan administration. more

“Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.”

Mean Has Beens Hands Past Law Creative Mankind Tasks Philosophical Instruments Determine Philosopher Hammers Giver Commanders Laborers

Book:Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future

Source: Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future

“Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.”

World Left Gone Forever Shadow Corners Historian Doomed Chasing Inability Revealing Thorough Around The Corner Completeness Documentation

Author:Simon Schama

“The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...”

Firsts Duty Historian

Author:James Anthony Froude

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