#Past Quotes #Race Quotes #Vision Quotes
“I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.”
Source : Henry Walter Bates (1864). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.23
“You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.”
Source : Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.156, Library of Alexandria
Source : "Rolling Stone" Twentieth Anniversary Issue, 1987.
Constantine the Great
Roman emperor
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philologist
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Philosopher
Johan Huizinga
Historian
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Art Historian
Jules Michelet
Historian
Leopold von Ranke
Historian
Peter Burke
Historian
Petrarch
Poet