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“The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.”

Ifs War Facts Written Revolution Bases Historical Guise Masquerade Historical Knowledge

Book:Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism

Source: Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism

“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.”

Needs Reason Facts Form Faith Easy Knowledge Objects Involved Pure Eternal Historical Indifferent Absurdity Historical Knowledge

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.”

Humans Character Understanding Existence Historical Profound Genuine Nobility Detachment Objectivity Human Existence Historical Knowledge

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the simple question: Could such and such a fact, as it is narrated here, have been photographed?”

Has Beens Facts Values Simple Meditation Photography Historical Mere Notion Introducing Genesis True Value Historical Knowledge

Author:Paul Valery

“On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.”

Should Self Individual Subjects Achievement Bases Historical Immortality Decay Self Knowledge Sociological Individual Achievement Historical Knowledge

Book:English Writings of Hu Shih: Literature and Society

Source: English Writings of Hu Shih: Literature and Society

“All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.”

World Humans Made Moments Facts Purpose Natural Depends Judgment Importance Historical Data Interpretation Natural World Human Society Interpreter Historical Knowledge

Book:Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World

Source: Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World

“A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with the assumption that there are spheres of thought in which it is impossible to conceive of absolute truth existing independently of the values and position of the subject and unrelated to the social context.”

Character Values Social Knowledge Impossible Modern Subjects Position Theory Accounts Absolutes Historical Assumption Relative Spheres Absolute Truth Theory Of Knowledge Historical Knowledge

Author:Karl Mannheim

“Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world”

World Want Historical Indispensable Historical Knowledge

Book:Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

Source: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War