History should be written as philosophy.
Voltaire
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COLONEL BRIAN D. PERRY SR. As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
KARL JASPERS The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, shoul...
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 Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of ...
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.
DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS History is philosophy learned from examples
DIONYSIUS Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream l...
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...
VOLTAIRE History is a pageant, not a philosophy.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other cont...
DIANE RAVITCH How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how
horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.
AMIT KALANTRI 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 Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other p...
PHILLIP GUEDALA Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other p...
PHILLIP GUEDALLA How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might,...
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 Throughout History, Empires have persecuted the great agitators; Noah, Socrates, Jesus, Columbus, Vo...
DON MASHAK The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' fro...
AUGUSTE COMTE I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
EDDIE MARSAN If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history...
ALBERT CAMUS Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosoph...
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.
TOMICHAN MATHEIKAL If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit shoul...
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 If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit shoul...
JAMES A. GARFIELD If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit shoul...
JAMES GARFIELD If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit sh...
JAMES A. GARFIELD After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
{Said i...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Common sense is not so common.
[Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
- Voltaire (Franco...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) 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 If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart; the spirit should...
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 ...
VOLTAIRE 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 The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be a...
GEORGE W. BUSH I didn't realize I would be maybe researching quotes from Voltaire and Mussolini before this was ove...
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.
NOVALIS (PSEUDONYM OF FREDERICK VON HARDENBURG) 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,
BRET EASTON ELLIS The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell...
ADAM HAMILTON History is us and we are history. History is written not with the pen but by our actions, what we do...
DANIEL OKE History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronolo...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Nevertheless, her own political philosophy could have been stated baldly (which it never was) as a b...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN 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.
ANON. 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.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
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