#history

It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#also #because #before #comprehended #development

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#because #control #easily #educated #general

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind. ↗

— Luke Ford

#british #history #i #kind #loved

I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well. ↗

— Michael King

#been #being #common #common sense #confronted

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#great #history #i #i think #out

There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live. ↗

— Rip Torn

#america #difference #history #kind #live

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#allow #always #art #back #biology

The drinking dens are spilling out There's staggering in the square There's lads and lasses falling about And a crackling in the air Down around the dungeon doors The shelters and the queues Everybody's looking for Somebody's arms to fall into And it's what it is It's what it is now There's frost on the graves and the monuments But the taverns are warm in town People curse the government And shovel hot food down The lights are out in the city hall The castle and the keep The moon shines down upon it all The legless and asleep And it's cold on the tollgate With the wagons creeping through Cold on the tollgate God knows what I could do with you And it's what it is It's what it is now The garrison sleeps in the citadel With the ghosts and the ancient stones High up on the parapet A Scottish piper stands alone And high on the wind The highland drums begin to roll And something from the past just comes And stares into my soul And it's cold on the tollgate With the Caledonian Blues Cold on the tollgate God knows what I could do with you And it's what it is It's what it is now What it is It's what it is now There's a chink of light, there's a burning wick There's a lantern in the tower Wee Willie Winkie with a candlestick Still writing songs in the wee wee hours On Charlotte Street I take A walking stick from my hotel The ghost of Dirty Dick Is still in search of Little Nell And it's what it is It's what it is now Oh what it is What it is now ↗

— Mark Knopfler

#history #scotland #storytelling #what-it-is #food

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#evening #experiences #forward #further #history

A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife. ↗

— Ruth Reichl

#food #history #table-manners #food