Historical Theory Quotes

#1. Because of their historical theory of the "alienation of labor" (that the worker must become less and less in control of the work of his hands) the Marxist parties never fought for the man-worthy job itself.

Paul Goodman

#2. A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger
especially at danger in the social sciences
of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.

Rollo May

#3. Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#4. If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence.

Julie Krone

#5. Sometimes in the corner of my eye, I saw a girl running through the loft. A see-through girl, a silhouette. She looked the way the world looks without my glasses. Vaguely hued, indistinct. She looked the way a body looks underwater, lost in the blur of bubble and wave.

Hannah Lillith Assadi

#6. The production of antibody is not the only, nor I believe the most important, manifestation of immunity, but for reasons both historical and of experimental convenience, antibody is likely to remain the touchstone of immunological theory.

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

#7. No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.

Cyprian

#8. As discussed earlier, when it comes to music, most of us tend to have confidence in our taste even though we may totally lack knowledge regarding historical development or compositional theory. I frequently hear, "I don't know anything about art" but hardly ever, "I don't know anything about music".

Michael Findlay

#9. Well, to be fair, he's in a situation where intelligence does rather go out the window," Cross said. "I have a theory that women actually siphon off our cleverness during the courting phase, and keep it for themselves. Which is why they always seem to see the endgame before we do.

Sarah MacLean

#10. You are a full of beautiful madness, an unreasonable reason, but you make sense in all things senseless.

S.w.collins

#11. It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ... Evolution is not a theory; it is a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066.

David Attenborough

#12. I wasn't paid a dime for my track career. But participating in the Olympics gave me the opportunity to learn about different cultures; it made me a better person. I wouldn't trade the time I competed for anything.

Wyomia Tyus

#13. Though [Charles Guignebert] could not accept either the Christ myth theory, which held that no historical Jesus existed, or the Dutch Radical denial that Paul authored any of the epistles, Guignebert took both quite seriously.

Robert M. Price

#14. I don't need to think that I'm being loomed over my shoulder in order to behave in a way that's moral.

John Amaechi

#15. Class analysis can thus function not simply as part of scientific theory of interests and conflicts, but of an emancipatory theory of alternatives and social justice as well. Even if socialism is off the historical agenda, the idea of countering the exploitative logic of capitalism is not.

Erik Olin Wright

#16. It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around ... It is more rewarding, in any case, to assemble the facts first and, in the process of arranging them in narrative form, to discover a theory or a historical generalization emerging of its own accord.

Barbara Tuchman

#17. It is a duty incumbent on every true deist, that he vindicates the moral justice of God against the calumnies of the Bible.

Thomas Paine

#18. In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory and practice take the people's historicity as their starting point.

Paulo Freire

#19. I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

Francoise Sagan

#20. If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.

Jefferson Davis

#21. In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That's all.

Bankei Yotaku

#22. I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

Mark Twain

#23. Who pursued a brilliant academic career studying ancient philology, transformational ethics and the wave harmonic theory of historical perception,

Douglas Adams

#24. I like to smile, even in intense situations. My opponents don't know how to react when they see me smile.

Vince Carter

#25. Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

William Hazlitt

#26. Alas, the historical name is 'actor-network-theory', a name that is so awkward, so confusing, so meaningless that it deserves to be kept.

Bruno Latour

#27. on the meanings of the behaviors rather than the behaviors themselves. Chapter 2 reviews the historical roots of identity theory, not only in symbolic interaction, but also, just as crucially, in the cybernetics

Anonymous

#28. There is heat in freezing ... be a testament!

Tanya Davis

#29. Our love should have mended all the pain and the hurt. Instead, we're met with more complications, more consequences, more frowns and furrowed brows.

Krista Ritchie