#the history of

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#came #having #history #hurt #knowing

The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#important #important point #new #new orleans #orleans

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. ↗

— Karl Marx

#class #history #previous #societies #struggles

I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture. ↗

— Thurston Moore

#culture #extended #formed #great #history

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#criticize #doubt #history #hopes #human

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#insane #insane people #mainly #people #saints

In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#end #fight #hang #happened #history

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Horatio Alger

#chivalry #features #forms #history #institution

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#being #history #intellect #itself #like

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