Benedetto Croce Quotes

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age.

No one can know the full story of something as vast and complicated and as full of deceit as the War in Vietnam…The historians will not know it …

… in history, so many circumstances of a small and accidental nature are relevant, that no broad and simple uniformities are possible.

… history turns out as always to be too messy, contingent and subject to the vagaries of human agency to be slotted into neat boxes.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

Multifaceted and textured characters are always more intriguing to me. You never really just want to play one note. It becomes a bit monotone and boring.

The PQ is diverse and vast. It's not monolithic.

I am like any other human being; I am full of different sides.

There's many sides to a coin and one person can in fact do a lot of different things.

Beauty does not mean one thing but not something else.

My music has to be funny and sad and happy and loving; it's gotta have it all. When somebody's just too dark all the time, it's just drama. Or if somebody's too funny? Well, I like being too funny sometimes.

The real world is not in one direction.

Real people - everyone is not just one thing.

Many women have many sides to their personality.

There is not one description of beauty - that in fact it has different faces, different stories, and different background, and it's important to embrace all of those.

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.

You cannot break the human spirit.

It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.

...the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect.

Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.

We divide ourselves up into spirit and human, but essentially we are all a part of the same world.

I'm a multi-faceted human being.