Corpse/history

Famous quotes containing the words corpse and/or history:

    There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one—you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at the mercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.
    James Baldwin (1924–1987)

    The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
    William James (1842–1910)