“In some ways, I believe that we are moving into a post-historical period, for lack of a better term. A time when whatever functioned previously will cease to function, or at least will have to be re-thought and re-considered.” WayBelieveMovingI BelieveTermPeriodsFunctionHistoricalCeasePosts Author:Mark Pesce
“This trial cannot be separated from the process of the historical struggle in Palestine that continues today between the Zionist Movement and the Palestinian people, a struggle that centers on Palestinian land, history, civilization, culture and identityAs for your judicial apparatus, which is where this court comes from: it is one of the instruments of the occupation whose function is to give the cover of legal legitimacy to the crimes of the occupation, in addition to consecrating its systems and allowing the imposition of these systems on our people through force.” PeopleGivingTodayCultureForceProcessStruggleLandCrimeMovementCivilizationFunctionInstrumentsCourtHistoricalTrialsOccupationAllowingPalestinianPalestineJudicialZionistLegitimacyImposition Author:Ahmad Sa'adat
“Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.” IndividualTalentAdvantageFunctionHistoricalEnvironmentalBoundsFactorsSteadyAccumulationIndividual Talent Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.” IfsWayLifeHumansRealityTruthLawCertainReligionChangeAcceptingMoralPracticeImpossibleHuman NatureAcceptanceEthicsDiscoveryFunctionTwentiesTransformationHistoricalMythDoctrineBehaveBreakfastEthicalAestheticTransformedConformPropositionsMetaphysicalAestheticsAlchemyFamous WomenSelf TransformationSpiritual TransformationEnhancement Author:Karen Armstrong
“What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself, what's the weirdest most eccentric historical phenomenon of them all? Answer:the Great British Empire. Clearly, one tiny little island could only conquer half the known world with supernatural aid. Those absurd Victorian manners and ridiculous fashions were obviously dictated by vampires. And, without a doubt, the British army regimental system functions on werewolf pack dynamics.” IfsWorldLittlesAnswersResultsHalfKnownDoubtFashionStrangeFunctionArmyHistoricalBritishAidsTinyRidiculousAbsurdVampireConquerMannersIslandsEmpiresWhat IfPhenomenonPacksEccentricWerewolfInterferenceDynamicsVictorianBritish EmpireUnexplainableBritish Army Author:Gail Carriger
“Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false consciousness, but a rather consciousness of falsehood, a falsehood which is corrected in the context of the higher truth represented by the objective historical interest.” FormInterestConsciousnessTheoryHigherFunctionHistoricalPatternsObjectivesIdeologyCommunismRitualFalsehood Author:Herbert Marcuse
“Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a way of knowing the world is kin to Romantic literature, with its discourse about organic form and function. Biology is the fiction appropriate to objects called organisms; biology fashions the facts "discovered" about organic beings.” WorldWayFactsStoriesFormScienceLiteratureFictionKnowledgePracticeHistoryKnowingFashionObjectsAccountsFunctionHistoricalNarrativeAppropriateBiologyOrganismsDiscourse Author:Donna J. Haraway
“[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of the function of the state. The theory that the state originates in an agreement between men was assailed by the German thinkers and the historical, organic, evolutionary idea substituted for it.” MenIdeasStatesGovernmentSchoolInfluenceTheoryFunctionRelationHistoricalObviousAgreementContractsThinker Author:Charles Edward Merriam
“The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'” PeopleFirstsStatesSchoolNationsGoalEnemyCitizensFunctionHistoricalPrimariesGood PeopleEducatePublic SchoolIndoctrinationGood Citizen Book:The Night Is Dark and I Am Far from Home Source: The Night Is Dark and I Am Far from Home
“The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.” MenDoeStatesSeemsMovingForceWishCarFunctionHistoricalWheels Author:Vladimir Lenin
“"For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal. It will become evident that formulations in words and the handling on of these formulations through writing are not only important aids but actually the only means by which humanity can have a history and continuing consciousness of itself."” WritingMeanImportantBookHumanityConsciousnessProgressEternalFunctionHistoricalAidsContinuingEvidentIntoxication Author:Hermann Hesse