Books Quote by Leopold von Ranke

“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

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

— Italo Calvino

“The history of ideas, then, is the discipline of beginnings and ends, the description of obscure continuities and returns, the reconstitution of developments in…

— Michel Foucault

I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of…

— Peter Carey

“There is a continuity of all things that make classifications fictions. But all human knowledge depends upon arrangements. Then all books--scientific, theological, philosophical--are only…

— Charles Fort

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

— Virginia Woolf

Our theology must become biography.

— Tim Hansel

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

— Dani Shapiro

I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

— Whitfield Diffie

Books are sepulchres of thought.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance…

— Mo Yan