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5. “Saddened by the misfortune of the Jews, remembering his friendship with Christians, increasingly mannered and affected as time went on for reasons to be revealed in due course, he now looked like a pre-Raphaelite worm on to which hairs had been indecently grafted, like threads in the depths of an opal.”
Marcel Proust
Misfortune, Jews, Friendship Christians, Pre-Raphaelite Look, Affected Behavior, Historical Reflection
7. “We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.” E.M. Forster Freedom, Censorship, Praise, Danger, Historical Reflection, Societal Fear
13. “It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.” E.M. Forster Power Dynamics, Historical Reflection, Timidity, Human Behavior, Social Hierarchy, Confidence Recovery
25. “Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a demon, nor a miserable and cowardly writer; he is nothing but the fact. And he is not only the Italian fact; he is the European fact, the fact of the sixteenth century. He seems hideous, and so he is, in the presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth.” Victor Hugo Machiavelli Analysis, Historical Reflection, Genius Or Fact, Philosophical Dissection, European History, Intellectual Debate
27. “For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.” Helen Keller Literature Integrity, Historical Reflection, Cultural Critique, Artistic Standards, Thoughtful Revision, Beauty Preservation
29. “I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953. In those days it was all flat land – no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships – just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.” Walt Disney Visionary Beginnings, Disneyland Origins, Inspirational Journey, Creative Development, Historical Reflection, Life Creation
Historical Reflection Quotes by Famous Authors
5. “Saddened by the misfortune of the Jews, remembering his friendship with Christians, increasingly mannered and affected as time went on for reasons to be revealed in due course, he now looked like a pre-Raphaelite worm on to which hairs had been indecently grafted, like threads in the depths of an opal.”
Marcel Proust Misfortune, Jews, Friendship Christians, Pre-Raphaelite Look, Affected Behavior, Historical Reflection
7. “We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.”
E.M. Forster Freedom, Censorship, Praise, Danger, Historical Reflection, Societal Fear
13. “It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.”
E.M. Forster Power Dynamics, Historical Reflection, Timidity, Human Behavior, Social Hierarchy, Confidence Recovery
25. “Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a demon, nor a miserable and cowardly writer; he is nothing but the fact. And he is not only the Italian fact; he is the European fact, the fact of the sixteenth century. He seems hideous, and so he is, in the presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth.”
Victor Hugo Machiavelli Analysis, Historical Reflection, Genius Or Fact, Philosophical Dissection, European History, Intellectual Debate
27. “For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.”
Helen Keller Literature Integrity, Historical Reflection, Cultural Critique, Artistic Standards, Thoughtful Revision, Beauty Preservation
29. “I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953. In those days it was all flat land – no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships – just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.”
Walt Disney Visionary Beginnings, Disneyland Origins, Inspirational Journey, Creative Development, Historical Reflection, Life Creation
