“The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.” WayWritingPastHistoryWeightOne Way Book:History as the Story of Liberty Source: History as the Story of Liberty
“A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys.” HumansMadePastHuman BeingsHistoryKnowingJourneyParticularNot KnowingRevealingFootprint Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott
“The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.” KnowsActionEarthPastScienceNaturalPrinciplesHistoryHappeningsGlobesEmployedExplainingGeologyNaturalist Author:James Hutton
“Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.” IfsMenPastAnimalHistoryHistoricalIntegratingExplicitImplicit Author:Geoffrey Barraclough