Geoffrey Barraclough famous quotes

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The only difference between the narrator of contemporary affairs and the ordinary historian is that moral judgments about the present provoke fiercer reactions and have more immediately practical implications than moral judgments about the past.
-- Geoffrey Barraclough

#Past #Differences #Narrators
Anyone who is going to make anything out of history will, sooner or later, have to do most of the work himself. He will have to read, and consider, and reconsider, and then read some more.
-- Geoffrey Barraclough

#History #Sooner Or Later
Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.
-- Geoffrey Barraclough

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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.
Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.
If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.
If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
I got drunk in Canada. I was there for 2 days but I was drunk there for 4 days. I don't know how it worked. I guess it was with the time difference or something.
My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.

Geoffrey Barraclough famous quotes

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