Quotes by Historians

We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern. Wilhelm Dilthey
Philosophical Philosophy Object Concern Make Itself
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. Will Durant
Flame Adequate Marriages Hasty Mutual Am Where Against Income
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. Will Durant
Nature Independence Never Make Read Unequal Declaration Us
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. Will Durant
History Wise Man Wise Man Money Will Know Hoard Bankers Thing Last
Education is the transmission of civilization. Will Durant
Education Civilization Transmission
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. Will Durant
Freedom Living Broadway Excess Take Look Just Street
Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law. Will Durant
Man Law Free Recognized He Became Subject
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. Will Durant
Freedom Promoting Civilization Cultural Order Activity
I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore. William Manchester
Peace Darkness Quilt Would Like Dead End Up Wondered Whether Evermore Tonight Pull Vaguely
We seek no wider war. William P. Bundy
War Seek Wider
I was never able to convince myself that there was a cost-free alternative course, as from 1961, or that any of the different strategies since proposed, especially those involving stronger military action, would have made sense. William P. Bundy
Myself Made Stronger Sense Action Military Those Would Able Proposed Never Since Involving Alternative Course Any Different Convince Military Action Strategies
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. William Winwood Reade
Success Beautiful Religion Philosophy System Spirit Morality Only Could Never Buddhism Masses Sorrowful Catholic Metaphysics Owed Succeeded Mankind Presented
The widespread assumption is that somehow, the brain produces the mind; somehow millions of neurons fire signals at one another create or produce consciousness... but we have no idea how or why this happens. I'm afraid that in many cases, people in the tech world fail to understand that. Yuval Noah Harari
People World Mind Fire Assumption Signals No Idea Somehow Cases Neurons Fail Idea Another Understand How Brain Afraid Happens Produce Create Produces Many Tech Why Consciousness Millions Widespread
You have to know how to co-operate with other people if you want to stay alive and raise children. And to do that, you need to know something about them. You need to know who loves whom, who hates whom, who is sleeping with whom. Who is honest, who is a cheat. Yuval Noah Harari
You People Sleeping Other Alive Stay Hates About Something Cheat Know How Children Want Loves Them Who Whom Raise Need Honest
The basic human reaction to pleasure is not satisfaction, but rather craving for more. Hence, no matter what we achieve, it only increases our craving, not our satisfaction. Yuval Noah Harari
Matter Achieve Increases Our Pleasure Rather More Only Reaction Human Craving Satisfaction Hence Basic
People already have bionic arms and legs that work by the power of thought. And we increasingly outsource mental and communicative activities to computers. We are merging with our smartphones. Very soon, they will just be part of the body. Yuval Noah Harari
Work People Will Thought Power Just Be Increasingly Our Mental Computers Outsource Part Soon Merging Arms Very Just Legs Communicative Body Activities
In the 1990s and 2000s, the liberal story shaped not only the foreign policy of the United States and its allies, but also the domestic policies of governments across the world, from South Africa to Indonesia. Yuval Noah Harari
World South Africa Liberal States Only Allies Shaped Indonesia Also Policies Policy Foreign Foreign Policy South Domestic Governments Africa Story Across United United States
In 1989, with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of communism, it seemed that the liberal story had won. The liberal story says that humankind is inevitably marching towards a global society of free markets and democratic politics. Yuval Noah Harari
Politics War Communism Free Society Cold Cold War Liberal Markets Collapse Says Seemed Free Markets Had Towards Global Democratic Inevitably End Won Story Marching Humankind
Everybody since the '60s has been saying the nation is a fiction - the nation is an imaginary unity - but people didn't connect the dots and say all human endeavours sprang from the same principle. Yuval Noah Harari
Saying People Nation Unity Everybody Say Has-Been Since Principle Been Same Human Fiction Dots Connect Imaginary
Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history. Yuval Noah Harari
History Crime Animals Worst Main Perhaps Industrial Domesticated Victims Farms Treatment
As a historian, I'm sceptical about conspiracy theories because the world is far too complicated to be managed by a few billionaires drinking scotch behind some closed doors. But I do think that the voters are correct in sensing that they're really losing power. And in reaction, they give the system an angry kick. Yuval Noah Harari
Angry World Complicated Losing Conspiracy Drinking Power Closed Few Doors Think Too Kick Correct System Some About Give Sceptical Voters Reaction Because Historian Scotch Closed Doors Behind Sensing Far Really Theories Billionaires
We can suspend disbelief about Harry Potter, and we do the same thing with God, and we do the same thing with human rights, and we do the same thing with money. Yuval Noah Harari
God Rights Money Same Thing Human Rights Harry Harry Potter About Potter Disbelief Same Suspend Human Thing
When you look at the growth of the human economy and its expected growth in the twenty-first century, I expect health will be the most important market of all. Especially as we move from a concept of health which focuses on healing the sick to a concept of upgrading the healthy. Yuval Noah Harari
Health You Healing Will Important Healthy Sick Market Economy Look Most Concept Expect Expected Move Human The Most Important Which Century Twenty-First Growth
Techno-humanism aims to amplify the power of humans, creating cyborgs and connecting humans to computers, but it still sees human interests and desires as the highest authority in the universe. Yuval Noah Harari
Power Universe Aims Sees Computers Highest Still Authority Human Interests Creating Connecting Amplify Humans Desires
Since the beginning of the computer age, there has been immense development in computer intelligence but exactly zero development in computer consciousness. Yuval Noah Harari
Age Intelligence Beginning Immense Has-Been Exactly Computer Development Since Been Zero Consciousness
Having raised humanity above the beastly level of survival struggles, we will now aim to upgrade humans into gods and turn Homo sapiens into Homo deus. Yuval Noah Harari
Survival Humanity Will Aim Above Having Struggles Beastly Upgrade Gods Turn Sapiens Now Level Homo Homo Sapiens Humans Raised
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