John Logan Quotes

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

History after all is the true poetry.

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

I think you can learn from history.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

I like historical things; I like researching things.

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Our questions and answers are in part determined by the historical tradition in which we find ourselves. We apprehend truth from our own source within the historical tradition.

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its members the benefits of socially accumulated knowledge.

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

History turns me on. I was terrible at it at in school, but as I get older, I get more and more into it.

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

Americans are in vital need of the instruction that historians can provide.

The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.

I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

I've always been fascinated by history.

I believe we need to learn from our past.

We learn from history. That's what it's all about.