“History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.” HistoryPatternsClimbingBootsThunderStairsDescendingSlippers Author:Voltaire
“Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history is the mess we call life reduced to some order. pattern and possibly purpose.” IfsHumansReasonPurposeOrderProcessHistoryHistoricalPatternsRationalMessJustifiedReconstructionHuman Reason Author:Geoffrey Elton
“History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.” PastFormSimpleHistoryStudyHappenedEventsPatternsDramaticReducingSeemingCoherence Author:Johan Huizinga
“All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the name raises questions about man's ultimate destiny and the meaning of all history to which, as history, he can provide no answers. The answers belong to the realm of theology.” MenHumansNamesAnswersDestinyHistoryUltimateRaisesPatternsWorthyTheologyRealmsHistorianSectionsHuman ExperienceRaises Questions Author:G. B. Caird