Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory..

Whatsoever is, is in God..

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price..

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding..

History is not history unless it is the truth..

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness..

Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. ….

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity..

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity..

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us..

It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch o….

No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth..

If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant..

Very often history is a means of denying the past..

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano..

Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income..

It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers..

All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences..

There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous..