Camps Quote by Gail Fine

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

— Herbert Read

I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably…

— Khaled Hosseini

“I am, of course, aware that for over two hundred years scholars have laboured to keep history and theology, or history and faith, at…

— N.T. Wright

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds…

— Louis Althusser

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

— Augustine Birrell

Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the…

— A. J. P. Taylor

Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.

— Joseph J. Ellis

Politics is my second passion, but as a historian, you have to be genuinely neutral. You have failed in your primary duty as a…

— Amanda Foreman

History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

— Eamon Duffy

I'm practically a historian.

— MC Ren

The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears…

— Michel Foucault