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Fri 7 Dec 2018

Economists

Posted by PJ under history, hunger, money
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Random quote of the day:

“In all recorded history, there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.”

—attributed to Peter F. Drucker

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Wed 12 Jul 2017

Vantage

Posted by PJ under history, perspective, quote of the day, the past
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Random quote of the day:

“The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.”

—G. K. Chesterton, “On St. George Revivified,” All I Survey

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Mon 15 May 2017

Dumbing down

Posted by PJ under history, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible.”

—E. L. Doctorow, “Orwell’s 1984,” Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution

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Thu 10 Mar 2016

Say what?

Posted by PJ under history, quote of the day, surprises
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Random quote of the day:

“History is merely a list of surprises….It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.”

—Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick

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Wed 4 Nov 2015

Mr. Pepys’s addiction

Posted by PJ under history, journals, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it, dull to the contemporary who reads it, invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.”

—Dame Ellen Terry, quoted in The Assassin’s Cloak: An Anthology of the World’s Greatest Diarists, eds. Irene & Alan Taylor

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Wed 23 Sep 2015

The seeds that once were we

Posted by PJ under history, influences, quote of the day, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

“Although we human beings have our own personal life, we are yet in large measure the representatives, the victims and promoters of a collective spirit whose years are counted in centuries. We can well think all our lives long that we are following our own noses, and may never discover that we are, for the most part, supernumeraries on the stage of the world theater. There are factors which, although we do not know them, nevertheless influence our lives, and more so if they are unconscious.”

—Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, tr. Richard and Clara Winston

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Mon 6 Jan 2014

Mythistory

Posted by PJ under history, myth, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“History is a mythical variant which we have chosen to take literally.”

—Patrick Harpur, The Philosophers’ Secret Fire

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Tue 29 Jan 2013

The only dead thing that smells sweet

Posted by PJ under history, myth, otherworld, quote of the day, the past
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Random quote of the day:

 

“History, the past, is also an Otherworld which provides us with the myths of How It All Began.”

—Patrick Harpur, The Philosophers’ Secret Fire

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Fri 11 Jan 2013

Mythistory

Posted by PJ under history, metaphors, myth, quote of the day, reality, truth
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“Traditional societies do not distinguish between myth and history in the way we do. Mythical events were not thought to have literally happened; yet in another sense they were true, as if they had….Conversely, historical events are always mythologized (the Trojan war, for example). It is as if what literally happened is less important than what metaphorically happened. But the two are combined to create what ‘really’ happened.”

—Patrick Harpur, The Philosophers’ Secret Fire

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Thu 27 Dec 2012

Unvisited tombs

Posted by PJ under being human, graveyards, history, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

—George Eliot, Middlemarch

(Thanks to sartorias for this quote.)

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