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Source: The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812

“... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate sympathetic contemplation" was intellectual, and issued in mathematical knowledge ... To those who have reluctantly learnt a little mathematics in school this may seem strange; but to those who have experienced the intoxicating delight of sudden understanding that mathematics gives, from time to time, to those who love it, the Pythagorean view will seem completely natural.”

Giving May Littles Seems School Understanding Natural Views History Strange Theory Intellectual Mathematics Passionate Delight Mathematical Contemplation Sympathetic

Book:History of Western Philosophy

Source: History of Western Philosophy

“Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.”

Wells Littles War Bigs Religion Politics Social History Blood Economic Tiny All Time Bloody Economic Systems

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people tend to run into you and believe you are your characters. And I suppose the funny thing is the longer you go, you do become sort of some version of [your characters]. You both diverge from them - you know - you live, but you also permanently inhabit that geography and that mental space - and so you do morph a little bit. We do become what we imagine.”

“It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.”

People Ifs Writing Littles Matter Hands Winning History Battle Kicks Pants Humiliating

Author:Benito Mussolini

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”

“There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.”

People Men World Inspirational Littles Literature History Sells Prey Cheaper

Author:John Ruskin

“Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.”

Children Littles Mother Suffering Father Parent History Too Much Dignity Parenting Father Son Mother And Father Children And Parents Funny Parenting Off The Wall

Author:Gloria Steinem

“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”

People Thinking Inspirational Littles Art Different Sometimes Philosophy Motivational Brain History Bears Criticism Cute Winni The Pooh Winnie The Pooh Life Winnie The Pooh Inspirational Winnie The Pooh Book

Author:A. A. Milne

“I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.”

Littles Feelings History Alive Sea Lakes Magnus Bane City Of Ashes

Book:City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.”

Ifs Inspirational Should Littles Ends Bigs Motivational History Historical Myth Poetry Is Poetic Contradictory Remakes

Book:Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literary Correspondence

Source: Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literary Correspondence

“To create a little flower is the labour of ages.”

Littles Art Philosophy Age Happiness Nature Creativity History Flower Labour

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.”

Littles Voice History Hatred Organs Flattery

Book:History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V1: the History Focus

Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V1: the History Focus

“Western elites - the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism - are unhappy in their late middle age, and show little gratitude for, or any idea about, what gave them such latitude. If they cannot find perfection in history, they see no good at all.”

Ifs Years Littles Ideas Shows Age History Sacrifice Middle Gratitude Late Perfection Western Defeat Prosperity Unhappy Communism Fascism Elites Middle Ages Latitude Beneficiaries

Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier. History is memory; we have to remember what it is like to be a Roman, or a Jacobite or a Chartist or even - if we dare, and we should dare - a Nazi. History is not abstraction, it is the enemy of abstraction.”

Ifs Should Littles Stories Remember Born Memories Enemy History Dare Stranger Aliens Realms Nazi Abstraction

Author:Stephen Fry

“[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.”

Littles Reality History Written Fit Opposites Capture Messy

Book:Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

Source: Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

“The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder-in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.”

“Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography and history. The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank. During my whole life I have been singularly incapable of mastering any language. Especial attention was paid to versemaking, and this I could never do well. I had many friends, and got together a good collection of old verses, which by patching together, sometimes aided by other boys, I could work into any subject.”

Source: Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution

“History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.”

People Littles History Property Lists Accommodate

Author:Voltaire

“If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time was spent on teaching children how to describe (in simple modern English) the method whereby ethylene was converted into polythene in 1933 in the ICI laboratories at Northwich, and to discussing the enormous social changes which have resulted from this discovery, then I believe that we should be training future leaders in this country to face the world of tomorrow far more effectively than we are at the present time.”

“Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside these small groups of fanatical Bavarian Nazis, Hitler's image and reputation at this time - so far as the wider German public took any notice of him at all - was little more than that of a vulgar demagogue, capable of drumming up passionate opposition to the government among the Munich mob, but of little else.”

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