Faith Quote by Max Weber

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of…

— Benedetto Croce

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

— Anonymous

“most historical relationships are ironical in character, or, to put it differently, that the course of history has little to do with the intrinsic…

— Peter L. Berger

The idea of a judgment of history is secularism's vain, meaningless, hopeless, pathetic attempt to devise a substitute for what the great Abrahamic traditions…

— Robert P. George

Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this…

— William Ernest Hocking

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

— Herbert Butterfield

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so…

— Ian Mortimer

History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition…

— Bertrand Russell

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line…

— Douglas Hurd

“The moment historians examine the past they risk changing it, by selectively re-arranging events, consciously or not, according to the judgment(s) of posterity or…

— Paul Ham

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

— Johan Huizinga