- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
History Quotes
Personal history and the record we leave.
Quotes about "history" here move between the personal and the public — early museum visits that shaped a scientific mindset, and a family history full of preachers and former priests. For enduring, timeless sayings, see Long quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical imperative.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in all times, men have come to receive the energy which they must have to live, should be made up of a tissue of illusions.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.
- Nerd
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big stupid history nerd.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the discovery of a disease as the establishment of the complete effectiveness of iodothyrin and thyroidin followed the recognition of cachexia thyreopriva.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.
- Argued
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- Nov 07, 2020