Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
Books are humanity in print. - Barbara Tuchman
Books are humanity in print.
- Barbara Tuchman
In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to… - Barbara Tuchman
In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to…
In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, … - Barbara Tuchman
In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, …
The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten. - Barbara Tuchman
The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations. - Barbara Tuchman
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement. - Barbara Tuchman
What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.
One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish. - Barbara Tuchman
One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.
Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation i… - Barbara Tuchman
Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation i…
Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves. - Barbara Tuchman
Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.
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