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“Reconstructing the past is rather like translating poetry. It can be done, but never exactly. Whether one deals with prehistoric recipes, colonial settlements, or medieval music, it needs great imagination and restraint if the twin perils of artless authenticity and clueless empathy are to be avoided.”
― Europe: A History
― Europe: A History
“While it may be hard to live with generalizations, it is inconceivable to live without them.”
― Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle Class Culture, 1815-1914
― Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle Class Culture, 1815-1914
“How can one bring into one’s individual life a full recognition of one’s relation to the universe as a whole?”
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“Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny. Now the time has come when we shall redeem our pledge - not wholly or in full measure - but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.”
― The Discovery of India
― The Discovery of India
“Without religious faith, runs the argument, we cannot anchor our moral truths or truly know right from wrong. Without belief in God we will be lost in a miasma of moral nihilism. Yet the transformation in the first four centuries not just in the fortunes of Christianity but also in the ethical ideas that animated it reveals the flexibility of religious precepts. Believers may see religious ethics as absolute. They have to, in order to believe. But God Himself appears to be highly pragmatic. The absoluteness of religious precepts can seem unforgiving, less so the precepts themselves. The success of religious morality derives from its ability to cut its beliefs according to social needs while at the same time insisting that such beliefs are sacred because they are God-given.”
― The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics
― The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics
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