Historicists Quotes & Sayings

Accordingly, historicists have to explain why in Paul's letters there are no disputes about what Jesus said or did, and why no specific example from his life is ever referred to as a model, not even to encourage or teach anything or to resolve any disputes, and why the only sources Paul ever refers to for anything he claims to know about Jesus are private revelations and hidden messages in scripture (Element 16), and why Paul appears not to know of there being any other sources than these (like, e.g., people who knew Jesus). — Richard C. Carrier

You and me ... we love differently. But that doesn't mean you don't love her, in your own twisted way. — J.M. Darhower

Your separation from God is the hardest work you will ever do. — Hafez

I think the fault is more with historicists who have stubbornly failed to develop a good theory of historicity. By simply resting on the feeble laurels of prima facie plausibility ('Jesus existed because everyone said so') and subjective notions of absurdity ('I can't believe Jesus didn't exist!'), the existence of Jesus has largely been taken for granted, even by competent historians who explicitly try to argue for it. — Earl Doherty

Playing the Opry, when I get the opportunity - it's one of the coolest honors for any musician in any genre, but especially for a country musician. — Charlie Worsham

And like blots upon the landscape rose the cupolas above the ways to the Underworld. I understood now what all the beauty of the Upperworld people covered. Very pleasant was their day, as pleasant as the day of the cattle in the eld. Like the cattle, they knew of no enemies and provided against no needs. And their end was the same. — H.G.Wells

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone. — Yi-Fu Tuan

If you fall down those stairs and break both of your legs, don't come running to me! — Louise Rennison

Suicide isn't cowardly. I'll tell you what's cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives. — Ashley Purdy

It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act. — Nora Roberts

I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams ... It was like the revelations of John the Baptist or something. — Marilyn Manson

I will only observe that every reality, even though it has its unalterable laws, is almost always difficult to believe and improbable, and sometimes, indeed, the more real it is the more improbable it is. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The mantra of the new historicists was "we have betrayed ourselves." Since their emergence, there have been more or less interesting paradigm shifts having mainly to do with Habermas and the increased focus on media studies, but the talismanic word has never ceased to be "history." — Paul Fry