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861 Historian Quotes

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Fear Wisdom Main Source
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And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

Interest Strong Understand Certain
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.

See Able Further Far
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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.

Else Eye Way See
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Motives Boast Enjoy Book
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Fear Opinion Once Now
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Love Caution True Form
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Cause Modern World Doubt
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.
Fear Dead Life Love
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.

Doubt Vanity Those Existence
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Passion Strong Life Pity
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Report Accurate Understand Hear
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted

Hang Mark Long Affair
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

Prove Exist Ancient Region
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

Great Stupid Clever Democracy
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Symptom Approach Nervous Belief
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It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

Catch Easy Fall Love
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Burn Life Bridge Cross
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My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Obvious Desire Wish Start
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To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

Philosophy Study Age Chief
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Nobly Prevent Free Else
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Intimacy Intense Deep Known
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Knowledge Power Astonishing Little
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When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

Think Teach Children Begin
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This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Fire Loving Strong Human
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Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

Dare Love Rainbow Gold
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A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

Bridge Silver Stretch Vision
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You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

Born Child Light Secret
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Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

Star Mirror Truth Inside
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What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

Heart Brain Dispute Lover
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Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

Heart Hope Dream Hate
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Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.

Slow Champion Fear Transform
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?

Voice Amber Yearn Burn
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This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.

Love Pattern Umity Sewn
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To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Create Art Passion Soul
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Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.

Wonderful Bright Inside Heal
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Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.

Common Spiritual Empowering Ignore
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Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

Shine Soul Egoless Humility
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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

Wing Muddy Heal Broken
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History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

History Glow Kiss Grief
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Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

Love Mercy Hope Silence
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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.

Taught Die Dignity Mouth
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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

World Pain Stop Blood
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Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

Time Heart Soul Melt
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Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.

Affirm Brother Word Quote
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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…
Shine Burn Death New
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Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

Peace Agony Soul Faith
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Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

Temple Joy Pain School
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There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear either. Because each one exists to make the others’ love more beautiful.

Envy Love Beautiful Rainbow
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Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

Freedom Wolves Meant Dealth
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