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As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.: Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984)
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist
The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.: Finley Peter Dunne (1867 - 1936)
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.: Gerald White Johnson, American Heroes and Hero-Worships, Chapter 1
The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.: Martin Luther King, jr., The Purpose of Education, Maroon Tiger, January-February 1947
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Men cling passionately to old traditions and display intense reluctance to modify customary modes of behavior, as innovators at all times have found to their cost. The dead-weight of conservatism, largely a lazy and cowardly distaste for the strenuous and painful activity of real thinking, has undoubtedly retarded human progress...: V. Gordon Childe, Man Makes Himself, p. 31
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
The passions are the only orators that always persuade.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.: Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971), Poetics of Music in the Form - Six Lessons
The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.: Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
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