The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one's country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.
Kuo Pao KunStichwörter: art history artist country tradition artwork
If you want to live like a normal person, you are already part of history.
M.F. MoonzajerStichwörter: history live normal
The very word 'history' conjured a dull success of thrones and murderous clerical wrangling.
Ian McEwanStichwörter: history
This history has for so long lived like a spider in my breast. The spider spins and spins, catching memories in its web, threatening to devour every final happiness. With this letter I hope to sweep away the terror and the sadness and to have my heart made pure again by God's grace.
Kathleen KentStichwörter: history god-s-grace heretics-daughter
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
Thomas JeffersonStichwörter: history opinions philosophy principles
There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist
Dan BrownStichwörter: wisdom power history ignorance
The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.
W.G. SebaldStichwörter: history capitalism economics slavery finance interest capital economic-history
Same here, Cap'n," Amos said. "I got a lot of past in my past.
James S.A. CoreyStichwörter: history
Simplicity could only have been bought at a great price in accuracy.
Ramsay MacMullenStichwörter: history christianitya history-of-religion
Our task as historians is to make past conflicts live again; not to lament the verdict or to wish for a different one. It bewildered me when my old master A. F. Pribram, a very great historian, said in the nineteen-thirties: 'It is still not decided whether the Habsburg monarchy could have found a solution for its national problems.' How can we decide about something that did not happen? Heaven knows, we have difficulty enough in deciding what did happen. Events decided that the Habsburgs had not found a solution for their national problems; that is all we know or need to know. Whenever I read the phrase: 'whether so-and-so acted rightly must be left for historians to decide', I close the book; the writer has moved from history to make-believe.
A.J.P. TaylorStichwörter: history
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