#historical

The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic. ↗

— Philip Schaff

#didactic #historical #kinds #prophetic #three

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. ↗

— Walter Scott

#easier #examine #finds #historical #incredulity

Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#believe #correct #historically #i #i believe

Indian food has been huge in the UK forever and ever, but that's because it has a historical rooting. America, I think is really ripe for it. There's been so much interest in Indian culture. ↗

— Aarti Sequeira

#because #been #culture #ever #food

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese #had #historically #many #periods

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic. ↗

— Hu Shih

#already #ancient #another #china #early

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. ↗

— Hu Shih

#basis #better #biological #death #decay

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians. ↗

— John Shimkus

#armenia #armenians #because #borders #controlled

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#claim #culture #deepest #derive #existence

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#enclose #equal #equal right #formations #great