The folly consisted not in pursuit of a goal in ignorance of the obstacles but in persistence in the pursuit despite accumulating evidence that the goal was unattainable… (ang.)
Źródło: The March of Folly
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The March of Folly
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Barbara Tuchman: Cytaty po angielsku
Źródło: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“History is the unfolding of miscalculations.”
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, p. 132 (1970)
Wariant: Books are... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.
“Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.”
Źródło: The Guns of August
“In the midst of events there is no perspective.”
Źródło: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 454
“Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.”
Źródło: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 469
“What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.”
Źródło: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 291
“Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.”
Enguerrand VII de Coucy, quoted on p. 570
A Distant Mirror (1978)
“When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.”
Admiral Jean de Vienne, quoted on p. 559
A Distant Mirror (1978)
“Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.”
Źródło: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 487
“Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.”
Źródło: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 523
“To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.”
Źródło: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 459