Quotes About Historicism

#1. There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims.

Judith Butler

#2. Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really equal or whether that opinion is merely a democratic prejudice.

Allan Bloom

#3. We carry with us the weight of the past, and because we do not have a finely developed sense of history and historicism, it is a past that is still alive in our present. We wear the dust of history on our foreheads, and the mud of the future on our feet.

Shashi Tharoor

#4. Just always be extremely respectful, was something that was drilled into me, which I think probably prevented me from having sex for a good seven years longer than it should have.

Seth Rogen

#5. The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

William Barrett

#6. There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons ... use them.

Rush Limbaugh

#7. The seasons of nature repeat annually. Spring goes off and comes back again. But for us, humans, the time does not return.

Miyuki Kamezawa

#8. I feel like people who are guarded and shut off, I feel like they should have to wear a button that says, "shut down", "guarded" or something.

Marnie Stern

#9. Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's the development that puts you over the top.

Anonymous

#10. Do not tell me you're a Yankees fan," V drawled. "I'll have to kill you, and frankly, tonight we need all the wingmen we've got.

J.R. Ward

#11. Everyone on the Internet is talking about television and everyone on television is talking about the Internet. The whole damn thing is a self-licking ice cream cone and you're blaming me?

Daniel Suarez