#historian

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#duty #first #guard #his #historian

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

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

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian. ↗

— Robert Plant

#find #historian #i #i can #pretty

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

— Antoine Rivarol

#passions #reason

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#appreciation #art #art history #aspects #historians

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward. ↗

— Josef Albers

#backward #create #historians #leave #looking

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#changes #historian #itself #may #paradigms

Every historian discloses a new horizon. ↗

— George Sand

#every #historian #horizon #new

The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists. ↗

— Jil Sander

#apparent #certain #cultural #dated #designer