Theodor Mommsen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

History is neither written nor made without love or hate.
-- Theodor Mommsen

#Hate #History #Made
The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd.
-- Theodor Mommsen

#Mean #Evil #Simplicity
History has a Nemesis for every sin.
-- Theodor Mommsen

#Historical #Sin #Nemesis
The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.
-- Theodor Mommsen

#Artist #Scholar
Without passion, there is no genius.
-- Theodor Mommsen

#Passion #Genius

A few weeks later, Iâ€™m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. Iâ€™m sitting next to a guy whoâ€™s doing a series of elaborate neck stretches, like weâ€™re about to engage in a vigorous rugby match. Heâ€™s neatly laid out four types of gum on his Formica desk: Juicy Fruit, Wrigley Spearmint, Big Red, and Eclipse. I hate this guy. I hope to God heâ€™s not a genius.
This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.
Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him
It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.
History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.
The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.
I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
How do I get it made? How do I get it seen? How do I get it in front of the people I want to serve?
If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.

Theodor Mommsen famous quotes

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