Famous quotes containing the words sharp and/or history:
“The A B C of being,
The ruddy temper, the hammer
Of red and blue, the hard sound
Steel against intimation the sharp flash,
The vital, arrogant, fatal, dominant X.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.”
—William James (1842–1910)