Adolf von Harnack famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.
-- Adolf von Harnack

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People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Upon appointment as the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Berlin, formed for the advancement of science.
-- Adolf von Harnack

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What's my favourite food? One you order out.
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed.
History is the great propagator of doubt.
My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.
If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today!
One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.

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