Quotes of: World-history Keyword

The people were created in the image of God and thus they were within the precinct of His grace, even the ones who didn't know Him...the ones who withdrew themselves from His presence.

The Brief History of the Dead

One popular saying was, "The boy who goes into medicine is too lazy for farm or shop, too stupid for the Bar, and too immoral for the pulpit.

Bleed, Blister, and Purge: A History of Medicine on the American Frontier

The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness

Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know, we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

A History of Western Philosophy

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

A History of Western Philosophy

Justin Martyr explained the distinction and the sameness of the Father and the Son with the analogy of a candle. The flame can pass from one candle to another without changing in quality or diminishing the first.

From Jesus to Christianity: A History of the Early Church

Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old.

Rizal without the Overcoat

With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)...

Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part One

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

The Real Thing: A Play

The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.

Redemptive History and Biblical Interpretation: The Shorter Writings of Geerhardus Vos

In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a perma...

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Looking for a supernova, therefore, was a little like standing on the observation platform of the Empire State Building with a telescope and searching windows around Manhattan in the hope of finding, let us say, someone lighting a twenty-first birthd...

A Short History of Nearly Everything

We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.

Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

Shadow of the Hegemon

Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.

In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life

As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature.

The Natural History of Religion

For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?

A Natural History of the Senses

, who assisted in revising it [ ] for the press, says that himself was frequently unable to recover the details in the chain of reasoning, and if satisfied that the conclusions were correct, he was content to insert the constantly recurring formula, ...

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.

The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves