Historical Value Quotes

• Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

  Raymond Queneau

  Character, Fiction, Stories

  8 Copiar cita

• It's very much to do with how I'm feeling ... I love to be experimental and use eclectic mismatched things and put them together to see what third entity is created! I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.

  Murciélago de pestañas

  Beautiful, Feelings, Together

  4 Copiar cita

• La idea del estilo paranoico como fuerza en la política tendría poca relevancia contemporánea o valor histórico si se aplicara sólo a hombres con mentes profundamente perturbadas. Es el uso de modos de expresión paranoicos por parte de personas más o menos normales lo que hace que el fenómeno sea significativo.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Hombres, Expresión, Ideas

  "El estilo paranoico en la política americana". Harper's Magazine, noviembre de 1964.

  18 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they will not be disturbed either by the lays of a poet displaying the exaggeration of his craft, or by the compositions of the chroniclers that are attractive at truth's expense; the subjects they treat of being out of the reach of evidence, and time having robbed most of them of historical value by enthroning them in the region of legend.

  Tucídides

  Believe, Crafts, May

  Thucydides, Ruth Finnegan “History of Greece”, Lulu.com

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present

  Charles Baudelaire

  Artist, Past, Interesting

  Charles Baudelaire (1995). "Los pintores de la vida moderna", Phaidon Incorporated Limited

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente