Zitate von Henry Thomas Buckle

„Der größte Feind des Fortschritts ist nicht der Irrtum, sondern die Trägheit.“

—  Henry Thomas Buckle

Geschichte der Zivilisation XX

„Ein sehr unwissendes Volk wird sich gerade wegen seiner Unwissenheit zu einer Religion voller Wunder neigen.“

—  Henry Thomas Buckle

Geschichte der Zivilisation V

„Erst zweifeln, dann untersuchen, dann entdecken.“

—  Henry Thomas Buckle

Geschichte der Zivilisation in England

„Jede große Reform hat nicht darin bestanden, etwas Neues zu tun, sondern etwas Altes abzuschaffen.“

—  Henry Thomas Buckle

Geschichte der Zivilisation in England

„Keine große Wahrheit, einmal entdeckt, ist wieder verloren gegangen.“

—  Henry Thomas Buckle

Geschichte der Zivilisation in England IV

„Von allen Ursachen des Nationalhasses ist die Unwissenheit die mächtigste. Wenn der Verkehr zunimmt, nimmt die Unwissenheit ab, und so vermindert sich der Hass.“

—  Henry Thomas Buckle

Geschichte der Zivilisation IV

„Wenn eine Zeit zu viel glaubt, ist es nur eine natürliche Reaktion, dass eine andere zu wenig glaubt.“

—  Henry Thomas Buckle

Geschichte der Zivilisation VII

„Die Literatur vertritt den Verstand, welcher progressistisch ist; die Regierung vertritt die Ordnung, und die ist stationär.“

—  Henry Thomas Buckle

„And, notwithstanding a few exceptions, we do undoubtedly find that the most truly eminent men have had not only their affections, but also their intellect, greatly influenced by women. I will go even farther; and I will venture to say that those who have not undergone that influence betray a something incomplete and mutilated. We detect, even in their genius, a certain frigidity of tone; and we look in vain for that burning fire, that gushing and spontaneous nature with which our ideas of genius are indissolubly associated. Therefore, it is, that those who are most anxious that the boundaries of knowledge should be enlarged, ought to be most eager that the influence of women should be increased, in order that every resource of the human mind may be at once and quickly brought into play.“

—  Henry Thomas Buckle

" The Influence Of Women On The Progress Of Knowledge http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/u-rel/buckle.html". Lecture given at the Royal Institution 19 March 1858. In: The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)

„When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap no benefits.“

—  Henry Thomas Buckle

Quoted in Propaganda (1928) by Edward Bernays

„Our knowledge is composed not of facts, but of the relations which facts and ideas bear to themselves and to each other; and real knowledge consists not in an acquaintance with facts, which only makes a pedant, but in the use of facts, which makes a philosopher.“

—  Henry Thomas Buckle

" The Influence Of Women On The Progress Of Knowledge http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/u-rel/buckle.html". Lecture given at the Royal Institution 19 March 1858. In: The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)

„Of all the various ways which the imagination has distorted truth, there is none which has worked so much harm as an exaggerated respect for past ages. This reverence for antiquity is repugnant to every maxim of reason, and is merely the indulgence of a poetic sentiment in favour of the remote and unknown.“

—  Henry Thomas Buckle

History of Civilisation in England. Vol 1, 1st pub 1857, also page 100. Worlds Classics , Pub. 1903. London Grant Richards.