Virginia Woolf Quotes

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Virginia Woolf

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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.

Salman Rushdie
- Life
- Time
- World
I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.

P. J. O'Rourke
- Home
- Guy
- Pretty
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Karl Marx
- Great
- History
- Progress
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

Karl Jaspers
- History
- Man
- Reality
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

Nathaniel Philbrick
- History
- Always
- English
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Ovid
- Good
- Pain
- Strength