Leopold von Ranke Quotes
- It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.
- He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
- All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.
- Calvin was virtually the founder of America.
- Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.
- Every generation is equidistant from God.
- In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.
- You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not…