“The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.” MenPersonsImportantSeeingEventsPossibilityEternalHistoricalScreensAccessVisualsAllowingModernityImportant Events Book:Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future Source: Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future
“It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.” NeedsReasonFactsFormFaithEasyKnowledgeObjectsInvolvedPureEternalHistoricalIndifferentAbsurdityHistorical Knowledge Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“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.” MayFactsRealityChristDoubtBirthEternalMiracleHistoricalCastsChristmasResurrectionAscensionHistorical Facts Book:The Life of Jesus: Critically Examined Source: The Life of Jesus: Critically Examined
“History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.” MenRealityGoalResultsTruth IsEternalHistoricalInventionLegendsMomentaryLegendaryHistorical Truth Author:Victor Hugo