#history

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ↗

— Washington Irving

#history #life #life is a #whole #woman

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that. ↗

— Reggie Jackson

#baseball #baseball history #black #history #i

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#attitude #becomes #contents #demand #entailed

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#essential #everything #great #history #philosophers

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#bad government #general #government #history #informs

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all. ↗

— Allen Tate

#any #conditions #history #instance #less

We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#album #being #called #civil #civil war

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#history #india #jumped #man #me

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#history #language #nation #our #uniting

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present? ↗

— Roland Joffe

#einstein #history #in the past #knows #looks