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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
— Paul Valery
John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.
— John Taliaferro
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
— Robert Darnton
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.
— Albert Camus
Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.
— Russell Smith
Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.
— Ernst W. Mayr
We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.
— Ian McDonald
I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.
— Margaret Bourke-White
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.
— Scott Anderson
And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.
— Russell Hoban
Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.
— Oscar Handlin
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
— J. William Fulbright
In the 5,000-year history of Jewish thought, the notion of a God-man is completely anathema to everything Judaism stands for.
— Reza Aslan
There was little that was truly original or indigenous to Gilead. Its genius was synthesis.
— Margaret Atwood
Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.
— Richard Watson Gilder
All history is the history of thought,
— Robin G. Collingwood
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.
— Cormac McCarthy
Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
Everyone has an interpretation of history, which suits their interest and benefit
— Kandathil Sebastian
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.
— Robin G. Collingwood
Certainly the history of astronomy shows that every time we thought we were special, we were wrong.
— Seth Shostak
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.
— Benjamin Hooks
Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.
— Albert Camus
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.
— James Harvey Robinson
[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.
— Joseph Goebbels
One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.
— Henry Adams
You've never thought of me that way, not ever, so don't go trying to reinvent history now when I have somebody.
— Jenny Han
The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought.
— Gustave Le Bon
This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.
— Leo Tolstoy
During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.
— Michael Winner
History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.
— Etienne Gilson
Aomame imagined the carefree winds sweeping across the plains of Bohemia and thought about the vicissitudes of history.
— Haruki Murakami
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
— Eddie Bernice Johnson
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.
— William Kristol
I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
— Ben Stein
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.
— Madame De Stael
If history has taught me anything about the nature of others, it has thought me that when natures can not be denied, they persist.
— Dew Platt
Every body has role to play in the history of the world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.
— Huston Smith
Richard knew, of course, that his was thought to be an unlucky title; only twice before had a Richard ruled England, and both met violent ends.
— Sharon Kay Penman
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.
— Frederic William Maitland
Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.
— Marc Bloch
Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
— James Gleick
It had to be the greatest irony in the history of mankind, he thought. The last Christian in the entire universe was a machine.
— David Weber
Never in mankind's history have we so fundamentally changed our means of existence with so little thought.
— James Rozoff
Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.
— Lewis Thomas
I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.
— Paul Valery
No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.
— A.J. Muste
He thought she was someone who could break the pattern of history. And he was offering to break it with her.
— Sharon Cameron
. . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time.
— George MacDonald Fraser
Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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.
— Dan Brown
History is the most patient of teachers. If Man doesn't get the lesson, it keeps repeating itself until he finally gets it.
— Christian Adam Ribeiraud