T Quotes
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“The history of our country has taught us, above all, the virtue of patience. It will be many generations before we can have the conditions we seek.”
Source: The Goblins of Eros
“The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.”
“The history of our desires is the is the story of how we lose ourselves to them.”
Source: The Book of Human Emotions: From Ambiguphobia to Umpty—154 Words from Around the World for How We Feel
“The history of our desires is the story of how e lose ourselves to them.”
Source: The Book of Human Emotions: From Ambiguphobia to Umpty—154 Words from Around the World for How We Feel
“The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit.”
“The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the complete exclusion of religious beliefs from our public classrooms.”
Source: The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children
“The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.”
Source: Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls
“The History of our Revolution will be one continued Lye from one End to the other. The Essence of the whole will be that Dr Franklins electrical Rod, Smote the Earth and out Spring General Washington. That Franklin electrified him with his Rod - and thence forward these two conducted all the Policy Negotiations Legislation and War.”
“The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world.”
Source: The Philosophy of Freedom: The Basis for a Modern World Conception
“The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without seeing it, so that the power of their imagination keeps them suspended in mid-air; but as soon as they look down and see where they are, they fall.”
Source: Situationism: A Compendium
“The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.”
“The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.”
Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays
“The history of philosophy, and perhaps especially of moral, social and political philosophy, is there to prevent us from becoming too readily bewitched. The intellectual historian can help us to appreciate how far the values embodied in our present way of life, and our present ways of thinking about those values, reflect a series of choices made at different times between different possible worlds. This awareness can help to liberate us from the grip of any one hegemonal account of those values and how they should be interpreted and understood. Equipped with a broader sense of possibility, we can stand back from the intellectual commitments we have inherited and ask ourselves in a new spirit of enquiry what we should think of them.”
Source: Liberty Before Liberalism
“The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.”
“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.”
Source: Pragmatism: Human Understanding
“The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.”
“The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz Ferdinand selling records.”
“The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had... his photocopier.”
“The history of PR is... a history of a battle for what is reality and how people will see and understand reality.”
“The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.”
“The history of progress is a history of freaks.”
Source: Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel
“The history of progress is the history of people who didn’t follow rules.”
Source: Conscience over Nonsense
“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.”
Source: Emma Goldman
“The history of Prussia is not a history of the genesis of a nation. Having arisen originally as a military colony of the Teutonic Order”
Source: Marx and Engels on Reactionary Prussianism
“The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.”
“The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust.”
“The history of religion shows that God has commanded people to do all manner of selfish and cruel acts [...].
The recurrence of evil acts committed in the name of God shows that they are not random perversions. An omnipotent authority that no one can see is a useful backer for malevolent leaders hoping to enlist holy warriors. And since unverifiable beliefs have to be passed along from parents and peers rather than discovered in the world, they differ from group to group and become divisive identity badges.”
Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
“The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred. The history of religions can play an extremely important role in the crisis we are living through. The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.”
“The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is the best of studies for liberating one's mind from geographical and traditional limitations. Like travelling, it shows the globe in its varying climates and zones, its latitude and longitude of intelligence. When the races shall have learned each other's language, the significance of things to thoughts, one faith becomes universal, one brotherhood.”
“The history of Rome is the most fascinating historical laboratory available to
sociologists. It provides a 700-year stretch of written records and archaeological remains.”
Source: The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760
“The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.”
“The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.”
“The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.”
“The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.”
Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury
“The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.”
“The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.”
Source: Wild Talents
“The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.”
“The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.”
“The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other.”
Source: History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...
“The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.”
Source: Uncommon Sense
“The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.”
“The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.”
“The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.”
Source: The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance
“The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used only for its own purpose, to illustrate impartially the working of reason against unreason, the gradual unfolding of truth, in all its forms, whether pleasant or unpleasant, useful of useless, welcome or unwelcome.”
Source: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece
“The history of science shows that great mysteries get solved. It may be that there's an answer that humans are too stupid to understand. I'm intrigued by that possibility.”
“The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that finally came to be considered as dogma. For this reason, it is proper to submit periodically to a very searching examination, principles that we have come to assume without any more discussion.”
“The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error lurk where they are least expected, and that they may escape the notice of the most experienced and conscientious worker.”
“The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.”
“The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities-perhaps the only one-in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there. In most other fields of human endeavour there is change, but rarely progress ... And in most fields we do not even know how to evaluate change.”
“The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.”
Source: Essays in Science