History Quote by Peter L. Berger

Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none of which…

— Rachel Kushner

“When history seems to offer no sanctuary for values (when history is assailed by wars and inhuman or immoral public actions), literature can provide…

— Beatriz Sarlo

History is sympathetic to its authors.

— John McAfee

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

— Johan Huizinga

The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

“History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our…

— Herbert Butterfield

“since historians must and ought to be exact, truthful, and absolutely free of passions, for neither interest, fear, rancor, nor affection should make them…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully…

— Johan Huizinga

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

— Martin Heidegger

“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing…

— Anonymous

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from…

— Miguel de Cervantes