Quotes about history of thought

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. Votes: 4

All history is the history of thought, Votes: 3

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind. Votes: 3

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought. Votes: 3

In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires. Votes: 3

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema. Votes: 2

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine. Votes: 2

In the 5,000-year history of Jewish thought, the notion of a God-man is completely anathema to everything Judaism stands for. Votes: 2

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Votes: 2

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science. Votes: 2

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God. Votes: 2

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. Votes: 2

No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have. Votes: 2

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself. Votes: 2

Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form. Votes: 2

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage. Votes: 2

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government. Votes: 2

So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew. Votes: 2

What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity. Votes: 2

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale. Votes: 2

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! Votes: 2

Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but maybe becoming one of the truly great presidents of American history. Votes: 2

Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men. Votes: 2

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought. Votes: 2

And I thought:History is like a horror story. Votes: 0

I never thought my cotton gin would change history. Votes: 0

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought. Votes: 0

Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history. Votes: 0

History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought. Votes: 0

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought. Votes: 0

[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin. Votes: 0

The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it. Votes: 0

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant. Votes: 0

No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today. Votes: 0

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir. Votes: 0

When we read history we find that in all ages people have thought, this is the dark age. Votes: 0

Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century. Votes: 0

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history. Votes: 0

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. Votes: 0

Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men. Votes: 0

We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up. Votes: 0

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer. Votes: 0

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that. Votes: 0

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought. Votes: 0

I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time. Votes: 0

I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses. Votes: 0

I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures. Votes: 0

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth. Votes: 0

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress. Votes: 0

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences. Votes: 0

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers. Votes: 0

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought. Votes: 0

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought. Votes: 0

I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor. Votes: 0

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it. Votes: 0

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things. Votes: 0

When I was a kid, I thought history was the most boring subject of all. I shouldn't blame my teachers; I should blame me, but I'll blame them. Votes: 0

Falling hard for somebody makes you do things you never thought you'd do before. Like pulling off an A in History or finally facing the truth about yourself Votes: 0

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions. Votes: 0

Science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history. Votes: 0

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought. Votes: 0

It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?' Votes: 0

To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces. Votes: 0

The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole process of human history. Votes: 0