Kenneth M. Stampp famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.
-- Kenneth M. Stampp

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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.
The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.
I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

Kenneth M. Stampp famous quotes

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