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“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”

Poetry History Particular Universal Philosophical Historical Poetry Is

Author:Aristotle

“This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.”

May War History Universal Slavery Perpetual Disguise American Civil War

Author:Frederick Douglass

“Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the citizens of Antioch. The arts of luxury were honoured; the serious and manly virtues were the subject of ridicule; and the contempt for female modesty and reverent age announced the universal corruption of the capital of the East.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.”

Ifs Philosophy Past Accepting History Our Lives Wind Universal Response Males Definitions Myth Bias Our Past Lenses Drifting

Book:Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

Source: Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

“Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.”

Men World History This World Universal Bottom Accomplished Great Men

Book:On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

“History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.”

History Stage Universal Permanent Ritual Perpetual Commemoration

Book:Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition

Source: Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition

“Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.”

Life Is Energy History Expression Universal Hunger Universal Energy

Author:Mary Ritter Beard

“Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.”

Humans Use Principles History Mankind Human Nature Particular Strange Universal Constant All Time Chiefs Us History Nothing New

Book:An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion

Source: An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion

“Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.”

School Education History Destruction Universal Propaganda Poison Liberalism Nazism Nazi Germany German History Universal Education Rise To Power

Author:Adolf Hitler