If memory is the thread of personal identity, history is the thread of community identity.

Carter Lindberg

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Human life without knowledge of history is nothing other than a perpetual childhood, nay, a permanent obscurity and darkness. -Philip Melanchthon

Carter Lindberg

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We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were from death to renewed life." -Peter of Blois (d. 1212).

Carter Lindberg

Stichwörter: history history-of-thought intellectual-history

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