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Every building should have a story, a story that comes from its environment and history.
If you are ready to give up everything else and study the whole history and background of the market and all the principal companies whose stocks are on the board as carefully as a medical student studies anatomy—if you can do all that and in addition you have the cool nerves of a gambler, the sixth sense of a clairvoyant and the courage of a lion, you have a ghost of a chance.
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practising politicians.
The history of a nation is, in essence, the history of its ruling class.
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.
Writing is a way to reclaim one's history.
To write is to resist the erasure of history.
The personal is historical, and the historical is personal.
We must understand our history through literature.
The sociological imagination enables its possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals.
The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis.
The individual's biography is shaped by the historical and social context in which it is embedded.
The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.