The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who finds the human being more interesting than what the human being has done must inevitably endow the comparatively… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain;… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
