I had finally become aware of how much I was capable of, how little I had to lose, and how deep into Douglas's soft sand I had sunk. Magellan's letters, which Douglas had recited, had become part of my being. It was as if I was right there with Magellan, following every curve of his pen as he wrote down his words to his beloved ones confiding his secret. I had become the ink, and the tip was tattooing my path. I was going to follow his dream, but still, I wished I knew why.
Celma RibeiroTag: inspirational history fiction travel thriller voyage
Show business imposes its own strict temporality: no matter how many CDs or DVDs we own, it would still have been better to have been there, to have seen the living performers in the richness of their being and to have participated, however briefly, in the glory of their performance.
Larry McMurtryIt is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.
Hans-Georg GadamerTag: history philosophy phenomenology hermeneutics
That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.
Kate MortonTag: history
Moreover, it is not just that the early documents are silent about so much of Jesus that came to be recorded in the gospels, but that they view him in a substantially different way -- as a basically supernatural personage only obscurely on Earth as a man at some unspecified period in the past, 'emptied' then of all his supernatural attributes (Phil.2:7), and certainly not a worker of prodigious miracles which made him famous throughout 'all Syria' (Mt.4:24). I have argued that there is good reason to believe that the Jesus of Paul was constructed largely from musing and reflecting on a supernatural 'Wisdom' figure, amply documented in the earlier Jewish literature, who sought an abode on Earth, but was there rejected, rather than from information concerning a recently deceased historical individual. The influence of the Wisdom literature is undeniable; only assessment of what it amounted to still divides opinion.
George Albert WellsTag: history literature miracles fiction jewish supernatural paul gospels syria jesus-myth st-paul historical-jesus historicity biblical-criticism christ-myth christ-myth-theory epistles historicity-of-jesus
Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.
Fred WhiteheadTag: history atheism secularism freethought american-history 19th-century 19th-century-america social-movement
Bauer's 'Criticism of the Gospel History' is worth a good dozen Lives of Jesus, because his work, as we are only now coming to recognise, after half a century, is the ablest and most complete collection of the difficulties of the Life of Jesus which is anywhere to be found.
Albert SchweitzerTag: history scholarship praise jesus-myth historical-jesus historicity biblical-criticism historicity-of-jesus bruno-bauer criticism-of-the-gospel-history life-of-jesus
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.
Russell BakerTag: history airplanes trains transportation aeroplane
Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. (“Hard” cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.)
Michael PollanTag: history apple alcohol cider
you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago,
Paulo CoelhoTag: past history the-zahir paolo-coelho 2000-years-ago
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