Couches Quote by Lynn Townsend White, Jr

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.

— Fritz Stern

“[T]he best historians...take a thorough knowledge of the evidence of their subject and combine it with a sharp intellect, the warmest understanding of people…

— Elliot Perlman

“[T]he pied beauty of humanity should not be carved into acceptable and unacceptable based on things that simply make us who we are.”

— Andrew Sullivan

“[I]t wasn't history that was too fragile, but me.”

— Jessi Kirby

“[T]he human being (and so all finite beings generally) becomes human only among others. Self and other stand in a relation of potential reciprocity.”

— Johann Fichte

[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and…

— Robert Penn Warren

[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

— Jennifer Egan

“[T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a political one.”

— Pascal Boyer

“[T]he thought was meaningless, an attempt to quantify direct experience.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to…

— Abraham Lincoln

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

— William Carlos Williams

[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand…

— Camille Paglia