The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.

Herbert Butterfield

Stichwörter: history

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The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical".

Herbert Butterfield

Stichwörter: history liberals historians whigs

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If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

Herbert Butterfield

Stichwörter: history

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History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our present.

Herbert Butterfield

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