Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

We are all affected by the time we are born into, and of course that feeds into your work. Society is based on storytelling - religious myths, opera, film - and 1968 was always seen as a time of rupture and fragmentation. I have always been interested in those words.

So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.

I enjoy thinking about how race plays out over the centuries, how technology evolves, how cities transform themselves. These subjects are present in some of my books and absent in others.

Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.

The true test of the progress of a people is to be found in their literature.

Without culture, development falls apart.

I think all the history of the Jewish people is about adaptation.

Simon Bolivar, when history led him - and as Karl Marx said, men can make history, but only as far as history allows us to do so - when history took Bolivar and made him the leader of the independence process in Venezuela, he made that process revolutionary.

Fashion is a reflection of the time.

I'm trying to tell the story of the evolution of America. Each biography is a life in time, and I can see there's a particular task for each generation that I write about.

I believe that hundreds of years from now, history will be divided into pre-1960s and post-1960s.

The late 1960s was another time and another world.

I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He singled-handedly revolutionized the political, artistic, and historical discourses about America.

My heritage has definitely shaped my music and my character in a lot of ways.

History informs where we are and how we got here.

The Victorian Age was very stimulating, historically impressive.

It was interesting to portray a character that was so far removed from today's world, but was also at the forefront of feminism at that time.

Georg Hegel viewed the "great men" as instruments of something far greater. Hegel believes that an individual can indeed embody the zeitgeist for a moment, but also that the individual isn't always clear they are doing so.

Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.

Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

If history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving.

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century