Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They call upon it to explain the problems of their own time, to give to those problems a philosophical context, a continuum in which they may be reduced to proportion and perhaps made intelligible."
-- Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

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The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors.
-- Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

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The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
-- Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

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To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading.
-- Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

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... the death of the spirit which threatens every man unless he is conscious of the danger and has a real purpose which can keep it alive and enable it to thrust its way through the choking weeds and thorns to the air and to the sun
-- Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

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Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."
-- Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

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History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.
-- Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

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That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.
Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.
I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.

Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper famous quotes

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