Books Quote by Peter A. Lillback

“The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity…

— Frank Kermode

“In other words, that works of history are mere collections of facts. It is fiction alone that can show us the true nature of…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“Historical analysis, by its very nature, tends to render seemingly unrelated events into an orderly and purposeful narrative, often leading to explanations that present…

— Ralph Snyderman

“When it is a question of ascertaining whether or not some human act has really taken place, [historians] cannot be too painstaking. If they…

— Marc Bloch

“All interpretations of history are propaganda for one idea or another.”

— Selma Dabbagh

“I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their…

— Na'ama Yehuda

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect…

— Goldwin Smith

“Historical fiction is a hybrid, a blending of reported reality, reasonable speculation, psychological truth, and the author’s imagination.”

— Philippa Gregory

“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of…

— A.E. Samaan

“Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we…

— Danail Hristov

“History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize…

— Aldous Huxley

“The more we try to explain sensibily these phenomena of history, the more senseless and incomphrensible they become for us.”

— Leo Tolstoy