"The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future."

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Source : Eric Voegelin, James L. Wizer (1998). “The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin”, p.185, University of Missouri Press

Eric Voegelin

#Unknown Future Quotes

“I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.”

Source : Charles Mingus' statement to Nat Hentoff as quoted in Anthony Fawcett "California Rock, California Sound: The Music of Los Angeles and Southern California" (p. 56), 1979, and in "Jazz: Beyond Time and Nations" in Nat Hentoff "The Nat Hentoff Reader" (p. 99), October 17, 2001.
“In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question? The grosser, the more obvious, the undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind. But among the writings of the representative Eugenists [sic], one cannot ignore the distinct middle-class bias that prevails.”
“It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.”
“I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.”
“Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.”
“You've only got so long to live.”
“I played a lawyer in a movie so many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I'm not a lawyer, because I got arrested.”
“Then when you think in years to come Of Birthdays long ago You may remember fondly How much we love you so.”

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