A Quote by Augustine Birrell

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

Augustine Birrell

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Augustine Birrell
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January 19, 1850 - November 20, 1933

History is a great dust heap.

Thomas Carlyle

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

Augustine Birrell

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

Augustine Birrell

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

Karl Jaspers

Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.

Henry Ward Beecher

Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.

Joyce Giraud

Can one understand politics without understanding history, especially the history of political thought, and will this distinguish political philosophy from some other kinds of philosophy (such as, perhaps, logic) to which the study of history is not integral?

Raymond Geuss

I am opposing it with an idea of the history of philosophy as a history of philosophers, that is, a history of mortal, fragile and limited creatures like you and I. I am against the idea of clean, clearly distinct epochs in the history of philosophy or indeed in anything else. I think that history is always messy, contingent, plural and material. I am against the constant revenge of idealism in how we think about history.

Simon Critchley

On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street, The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet, With a word here of the hills, and a song there of the sea And-the great movement changes-the pageant passes me.

John Masefield

Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale.

Langston Hughes

I love knowing that I am simultaneously as big as the universe and yet merely a heap of star dust.

Jill Bolte Taylor

The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object-Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes it. It also paints men, it aggrandizes them, it exaggerates them, it creates heroes and gods. History only depicts man, and paints him such as he is.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Miss America is a scholarship pageant, and they actually define themselves as a talent pageant.

Shanna Moakler

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

The history of mathematics, lacking the guidance of philosophy, [is] blind, while the philosophy of mathematics, turning its back on the most intriguing phenomena in the history of mathematics, is empty.

Imre Lakatos

I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.

Eddie Marsan

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