We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
Archival and published history does not always record personal relationships of historical figures, so characters must be invented to allow the subject to reveal their interior realm through intimate interaction.
Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.
Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.
What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction.
There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past.
The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.
People may assume 'The Act of Killing' is a historical documentary about what happened in 1965. But our purpose was to expose a present-day regime of fear for what it is.
Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of sports.
The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.
The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad.
'Hamilton' and 'Shuffle Along' are closely connected because the ensembles are all friends, and they both deal with historical figures and the impact they've made on American life.
Simon Bolivar is the leader of the revolution of this land. He is the leader of the social revolution, the people's revolution, the historical revolution.
With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.
