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“The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1940s, Third Inaugural Address (1941)
Context: The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. It permeated the ancient life of early peoples. It blazed anew in the Middle Ages. It was written in Magna Charta.
John Gray book Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
The Deception: Nietzsche's Optimism (p.47-8)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)
“Human history is in essence a history of ideas.”
H. G. Wells book The Outline of History
Source: The Outline of History (1920), Ch. 40
“The history of human civilisation is a history of mutual borrowings.”
Nayef Al-Rodhan (1959) philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author
Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.28
“Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.”
Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Sunday <br class="br">Context: The hidden significance of these fables which is sometimes thought to have been detected, the ethics running parallel to the poetry and history, are not so remarkable as the readiness with which they may be made to express a variety of truths. As if they were the skeletons of still older and more universal truths than any whose flesh and blood they are for the time made to wear. It is like striving to make the sun, or the wind, or the sea symbols to signify exclusively the particular thoughts of our day. But what signifies it? In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn. In the history of the human mind, these glowing and ruddy fables precede the noonday thoughts of men, as Aurora the sun's rays. The matutine intellect of the poet, keeping in advance of the glare of philosophy, always dwells in this auroral atmosphere.
“History is the biography of the human race.”
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to John Adams (1 August 1816)
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