Event Analysis Quotes

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and yet the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study events in their bearings near and remote; in the character, habits, and manners of those who took part in them. He must himself be, as it were, a sharer or a spectator of the action he describes.

If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.

Something that's interesting is how my perspective on different events can change over time even though the events themselves haven't changed. As I get older, I interpret something differently, or I can even interpret a person differently.

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

'Room' was more a study of an individual event, and 'The Family' takes off from there.

What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film.

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it

I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event.

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.

An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so arranged that the relations between a particular set of phenomena may be studied to the best advantage.

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

The larger the event, the less likelihood of having a single cause or origin.

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.

I don't think you would have any trouble at all in deciding that you are thinking of some event and then visualizing it happening with its consequences, and constructing a rational analysis of it without being able to verbalize it adequately in anything like its full complexity.

As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately why what happened to Dreyfus was not merely a cause celebre from the end of the 19th century, but an event that could be shown to teach us lessons of the greatest importance for our own time.

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

When I started writing the third book, 'The Kill,' the intention was just to write a thriller, a crime novel for myself, really, in which there would be no body, no solution - where you would look at an event from different people's perspectives.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.