Quotes 2641 till 2660 of 3972.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
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The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
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The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
A Woman of No Importance Act 3 -
The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.
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The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.
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The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud.
Kingdom Come (2006) -
The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 198 -
The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
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The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.
A Treatise of Human Nature -
The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.
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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy -yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
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The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
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The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
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The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.
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