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The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides
appears to assert when he says history is philosophy read more
The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides
appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from
examples.
It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory read more
It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there.
History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers read more
History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.
The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.
The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.
It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in read more
It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women.
History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women.
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one read more
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and read more
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
