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“Nothing falsifies history more than logic.”
“The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.”
“History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.”
“Happy people have no history.”
“You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.”
“The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.”
“I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.”
“In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.”
“I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.”
“The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.”
“No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.”
“Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.”
“If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.”
“History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.”