Quotes of: History-repeats-itself Keyword

Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.

Wilhelm Dilthey

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Anais Nin

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Charles Horton Cooley

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

Henry Miller

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

Jerzy Kosinski

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

Jean Toomer

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Karen Horney

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Like life itself my stories have no point and get absolutely nowhere.

Thorne Smith

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

Dave Haywood

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

Luther Burbank

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

Edith Wharton

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

Fatos Nano

Experiences influence decisions. Along these lines, no encounter is terrible in itself

Gladys Adevey

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Charles Dickens

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

Clifton Fadiman

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

Carl Sagan

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

Irving Penn

We're obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself.

Jim Allchin