Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.
The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.
What were you supposed to say to people you barely knew? That was the kind of thing I needed lessons in - forget algebra and history.
History shows: Whenever people try to pull you down, you will reach peaks of success. You just need the ability to ignore.
Time passes, everything becomes history. Life, Death and suffering. These are the harsh judgements of life, we have to cope or give up.
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.
Isn't better to excel in your work than wasting time on fruitless things ... after all to become the history, you have to write it.
As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
I've set no world record.
I find the business world hard.
We are not in the world, the world is inside us.
The classical music world is so snobbish.
Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.
There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.
There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.
If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual.
Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!
The world is not looking for proof of Jesus Christ; the world knew everything about Jesus when they crucified him. The world is guilty. John 16:5-8.
People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.
The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.
