"All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind."

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Source : "The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers". Book by Carl L. Becker (Chapter II, pp. 43-44), 1932.

Carl L. Becker

#Writing Quotes #Historical Quotes #Mind Quotes

“If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.”
“We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.”
“I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.”

Source : "Super classical quantum mechanics: the best interpretation of non relativistic quantum mechanics". American Journal of Physics 69, p. 413-422, 2001.
“It's almost always dangerous to be right too soon.”
“The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.”
“I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.”
“We're all given a window of opportunity, I think all artists are, of any genre. A window when you're truly relevant, the spotlight's on you and people are watching what you do.”

Source : "Who the hell is Eric Church?". Interview with Bill DeYoung, www.connectsavannah.com. January 31, 2012.
“As for being AIDS infested, I don't know yet, I'm too scared to get tested.”

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