History should be written as philosophy.


Voltaire

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TERRY EAGLETON
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
My philosophy is that politicians should be jumped on as often as possible.
DAVID LEVINE
I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.
DAVID LACHAPELLE
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IMRE LAKATOS
History is written not only by posterity, but for posterity as well.
STACY SCHIFF
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
THUCYDIDES
History is philosophy learned from examples.
DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS
History is philosophy teaching by examples.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
History is philosophy teaching by example.
DIONYSIUS
History is philosophy drawn from examples.
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History is philosophy learned from examples
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WALTER JON WILLIAMS
Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone
ARAB PROVERB
What can be said, should never be written
ADOLF HITLER
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
A gente acha que é menos infeliz quando não é infeliz sozinho; mas, segundo Zoroastro, não é po...
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History is a pageant, not a philosophy.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL
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DIANE RAVITCH
How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
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A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
ARTHUR BALFOUR
Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR
History is written by the victors.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
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PHILLIP GUEDALA
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SAMUEL LOVER
Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or ...
EDNA O'BRIEN
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DON MASHAK
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AUGUSTE COMTE
I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
EDDIE MARSAN
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ALBERT CAMUS
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MARGARET THATCHER
If history was written about his-story (the victor) is not accurate history
MOHAMMED S. HASSAN
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
MARGARET THATCHER
I believe that there are certain contexts in black communities as a sign of belonging and an attempt...
DAVARIAN BALDWIN
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
LYTTON STRACHEY
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
ANON.
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
ANONYMOUS
There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; ...
MARTIN GARDNER
History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
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JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should ...
JAMES A. GARFIELD
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JAMES A. GARFIELD
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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
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To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I.
HARRY S TRUMAN
One does not arrest Voltaire.
CHARLES DE GAULLE
I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be wri...
PAM GEMS
Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive ph...
NATHAN DEAL
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL
To me, the single most important thing to me is that he has the right judicial philosophy, ... He wi...
DAVID VITTER
Don't wait for the bus when you should be the bus driver.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
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JAMES A. GARFIELD
If we could have the ability to change the past and right our wrongs would it make us learn from any...
GARY F EVANS...
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then writ...
FERDINAND MARCOS
It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.
JOSEPH CONRAD
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
VOLTAIRE
I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock ...
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That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.
KARL JASPERS
History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.
EMILIE AUTUMN
One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER
Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hop...
CARL JUNG
We have arranged for ticket holders to come to the venue at specific times as written on the tickets...
ARIF MUJAHIDIN
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as ...
EPICTETUS
It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, ...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE
Socrates should have written comics.
MARK WAID
Most contracts should be easy to understand and written at an eighth grade level.
JOHN JONES
"Do Not Disturb" signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids
TIM BEDORE
Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and phi...
PATRICK MENDIS
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
MARK TWAIN
The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
MARK TWAIN
The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
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MIKE LYNCH
I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and ...
PETER ACKROYD
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
JEFFERSON DAVIS
What a woman says to her lover should be written on air or swift water.
CATULLUS
It should have been written already,
BRET ELLIS
It should have been written already,
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The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell...
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History is us and we are history. History is written not with the pen but by our actions, what we do...
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Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la mé...
VOLTAIRE
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice
MARK TWAIN
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.
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The near-real-time history being written hasn't been particularly kind to Rumsfeld.
ANDREW KREPINEVICH
Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
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