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“Immature thought is predominately purposive and utopian. Thought which rejects purpose altogether is the thought of old age. Mature thought combines purpose with observation and analysis.”
― The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations
― The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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“Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.”
― What Is History?
― What Is History?
“The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing the orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.”
― Orientalism
― Orientalism
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