Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

There is no way to tell if we are the pioneers of a visionary new age, whisking humanity into the high vibrations of an interdimensional love party, or post-modern Don Quixotes attacking techno-industrial windmills with our flimsy, rolled-up yoga mat...

The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic

Literature is called adabiyat in Islam precisely because it is seen as the keeper of a civilization and the collector of teachings and statements that educate the self and society with adab such that both are elevated to the rank of the cultured man ...

Islamization of Contemporary Knowledge and the Role of the University in the Context of De-Westernization and Decolonization

Art is only important to the extent that it aids in the liberation of our people.

Traditions And Transformations: Contemporary Afro American Sculpture: The Bronx Museum Of The Arts, February 21 May 27, 1989

An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of th...

Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory

Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who lived through this, even a little bit, they carry it inside. The contemporary isn't just what you c...

Per Petterson

History repeats itself.

Traditional

Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness.

On the Nature of History : Essays about History and Dissidence

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Benito Mussolini

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Luigi Pirandello

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

Felix Frankfurter

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Karl Marx

If animal history has been a history of evolution, then the history of mankind is one of retrogression. Hooray for monsters! Monsters are the great embodiments of the weak.

Secret Rendezvous

We need to stop fighting the old systems and start creating new containers for people who are going through these spiritual openings,’ Tavis reflected. ‘Together, we need to build something that’s never existed before—a global network of ligh...

The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic

Our ailing planet needs spiritual warriors, ones capable of standing up to the Western materialism machine, so we can create sustainable societies that care for their citizens, harmonize with the cycles of nature, and receive and honor the vast heali...

The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic

Our images of God matter. Just as how we conceptualize God affects what we think the Christian life is about, so do our images of God.

The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith

Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying.

50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life from Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus

To die to our neighbors means to stop judging them, to stop evaluating them, and thus to become free to be compassionate. Compassion can never coexist with judgment because judgment creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really...

The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry

Literature is impossible, in exactly this sense: every new generation has so much 'catching up' to do that the real choice that presents itself soon is the following one: one either spends ones entire life just reading all the classics, or one preten...

Martinus Hendrikus Benders

The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.

Historians In The Middle Ages

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

The Realm of the Nebulae

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Winston Churchill