Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

Karl Jaspers

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

Diane Paulus

The de-spiritualization of asceticisms is probably the event in the current intellectual history of mankind that is the most comprehensive and, because of its large scale, the hardest to perceive, yet at once the most palpable and atmospherically pow...

Du mußt dein Leben ändern

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

The Love Mindset

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Benjamin Disraeli

You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.

James Surowiecki

History repeats itself. Someone says this. History throws its shadow over beginning, over the desktop, over the sock drawer with its socks, its hidden letters. history is the little man in a brown suit trying to define a room he is outside of, I know...

Crush

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

Dave Foley

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

Seamus Heaney

How we think about God matters. It affects the credibility of religion in general and of Christianity in particular. Our concept of God can make God seem real or unreal, just as it can also make God seem remote or near.

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

When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned by it. On the other hand, tradition can be understood as a pointer to that which is beyond tradition: the sacr...

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

Sentimentality was used because other political avenues were closed, and authors hoped that through it they could bring about a political change that would fulfill the egalitarian promises of the Revolution. Real political venues were unavailable, so...

Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism

The concept of ta'dib, if properly understood and competently explicated, is the correct concept of education in Islam, and not ta'lim or tarbiyah, which are currently in vogue among Muslims all over the world. this is because ta'dib already includes...

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

In order to live without creating any serious problems for the group's harmony, people avoid expressing their ideas clearly, even the point of avoiding giving a simple yes or no answer. If a person really wanted to say no, he or she said nothing at f...

The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture

Prayer is standing in the presence of God with the mind in the heart; that is, at that point of our being where there are no divisions or distinctions and where we are totally one. There God's Spirit dwells and there the great encounter takes place. ...

The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry

History is about winners, not about losers. History is about assessing distortions, not copying out truths. History has much to say about the way the powerful handle power, for power engenders records. History is about evidence, and evidence flagrant...

An Intelligent Person's Guide to History

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Oscar Wilde

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.

Richard Flanagan

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

G. M. Trevelyan

Augustine recast how people should view history, that history was not the story of the rise and fall of empires because those are human things. Those are the city of man. Rather, true history should be the history of salvation, of man moving toward G...

From Jesus to Christianity: A History of the Early Church

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Ernest Dimnet