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"World history is a court of judgment."
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"Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it."
Life
"We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest."
Knowledge
"Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it."
History
"World history is a court of judgment."
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"Too fair to worship, too divine to love."
Love
"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything."
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"Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought."
Man
"Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond."
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"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think."
Creativity
"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."
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"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."
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"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."
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"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."
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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
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"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."
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"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."
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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
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"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."
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"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."
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"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."
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