#historian

I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#been #feel #full-time #historian #i

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician. ↗

— James Harrington

#first #historian #man #may #must

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#because #historian #i #i think #leading

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#carry #historians #i #i think #past

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. ↗

— Peter Conrad

#circumstance #historian #inevitability #innocuous #job

There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#available #bad #certainly #field #future

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. ↗

— Paul de Man

#agent #both #degree #his #historian

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#ads #any #archaeologists #day #discover

As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#century #cultural #david #find #historians

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#passions #reason