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- From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.
- I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.
- An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.
- There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.
- Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.
- An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.