Historical Quotes - Page 37

• If you think about how broadcast mini-series approach historical events, there is a hagiography. There has been a soft, very glossy idea about history. And one of the things I like about Game of Thrones, for example, is just the grit and the authenticity.

  John Landgraf

  Thinking, Games, Ideas

  "FX CEO John Landgraf Talks FARGO Limited Series, THE STRAIN, and More; Says THE STRAIN Will End Up Running Between 39 and 65 Episodes". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 2, 2013.

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• You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  Character, Play, Ordinary

  Source: collider.com

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• I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Country, Children, Museums

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• There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Practice, Differences

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• This is why it might be more useful to understand the proliferation of interactive media as an opportunity for renaissance: a moment when we have the ability to step out of the story altogether. Renaissances are historical instances of widespread recontextualisation. People in a variety of different arts, philosophies and sciences have the ability to reframe their reality. Renaissance literally means 'rebirth'. It is the rebirth of old ideas in a new context.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

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• Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples - an ornery, undependable, and hopelessly flawed group of men - became drunk with the power of a gospel that offered free forgiveness to the worst sinners and traitors. Those men managed to change the world.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Men, Impact

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Grace Notes”, p.95, Harper Collins

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• Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Historical Knowledge, Objectivity

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• The long-run historical tendency of capitalism has not only been to increase real incomes more or less proportionately nearly all along the line, but to benefit the masses even more than the rich.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Running, Real, Long

  Henry Hazlitt (1996). “The Conquest of Poverty”

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• I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it's silly to talk about him not existing. I don't know anyone who is a responsible historian, who is actually trained in the historical method, or anybody who is a biblical scholar who does this for a living, who gives any credence at all to any of this.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Jesus, Silly, Biblical

  "The Gospel According to Bart". Interview with David V. Barrett, "Fortean Times", 2007.

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• Size will hurt returns. Look at Berkshire Hathaway - the last five things Warren has done have generated returns that are splendid by historical standards, but now give him $100 billion in assets and measure outcomes across all of it, it doesn't look so good. We can only buy big positions, and the only time we can get big positions is during a horrible period of decline or stasis. That really doesn't happen very often.

  Charlie Munger

  Hurt, Giving, Looks

  Charlie Munger's opening remarks at the 2005 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 4, 2005.

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• Nationality is not a universal human principle but an historical, local fact...Every nation, even a small one, has its own character, its own particular way of life and manner of speaking, feeling, thinking, and behaving. These distinctive features are the essence of nationality, the product of a nation's entire history and conditions of existence. Every nation, like every individual, is of necessity what it is, and has an unquestionable right to be itself. So-called national rights consist precisely of this.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Character, Thinking, Rights

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Marshall Shatz (1990). “Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there is no reason to assume that we know what's going on or that the generation which follows us will know what's going on. And what kind of trip is it anyway to insist on knowing what's going on?

  Terence McKenna

  Intelligent, Knowing, Generations

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• My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.

  Terence McKenna

  Communication, Ideas, Effort

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• Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of the historical process, to halt nuclear proliferation, germ warfare, infantile 19th century politics, all these things. It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assault upon it by political means.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Political, Understanding

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• The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.

  Terence McKenna

  Civilization, Boundaries, Century

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• This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.

  Terence McKenna

  Lying, Believe, Casual

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• If the evidence supports the historical accuracy of the gospels, where is the need for faith? And if the historical reliability of the gospels is so obvious, why have so many scholars failed to appreciate the incontestable nature of the evidence?

  Robert W. Funk

  Appreciate, Support, Needs

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• You think about people like Hank Williams, who stood on that spot of wood, and Mr. Acuff, and, of course, George Jones. And just about anybody you can think of who has made country music has been on that stage. That's what makes you so nervous - to think about the historical part of the Opry and how it's played such a part in country music.

  Alan Jackson

  Country, Thinking, People

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• Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose.

  Charles Kimball

  Mistake, Tunnels, Vision

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• There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Self, Knows, Ifs

  "Lucinde and the Fragments" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by P. Firchow, (§ 139), 1991.

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• I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre. Judged by what it did to your ears, rather than what its historical use reminds you of.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Issues, Wish, Sound

  "Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur Talk Junun Project". Interview with Jazz Monroe, pitchfork.com. December 3, 2015.

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• I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Epic, Bigs, Aspiration

  Interview with Michael Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing.

  William Monahan

  Together, Stitches, Facts

  Source: collider.com

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• I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.

  Eric Stoltz

  Character, Long, Stories

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• Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.

  Dan Quayle

  War, Kuwait, Iraq

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