History Quotations (1 Viewer)

[Caratacus]

Go SimpaticO!

I must be an Enlightenment throwback because I like the Gibbon one best.

Princes should have more to fear from historians than have ugly women from great painters. - Antonio Pérez, Aforismos

 

[silvermoon]

sorry simpatic0...i was gunna rep you 4 that v.cool post...but apparently, *sigh*
"You must spread the reputation around before giving it to Simpatic0 again". i hate that thing.
heh, i think my fav one was "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." Churchill. now thats my kinda guy...self-absorbed, egotistic, arrogant...charming really *rolls eyes*

 

[max]

We are fighting for the lives of innocent young people beset by devilish tempters who claim to offer higher forms of thought and deeper truths and insights - the intellectual equivalent of trash.

Guess which historian wrote this?

 

[Caratacus]

Shouldn't that be "tempters"?

 

[silvermoon]

Guess which historian wrote this?

guess the historian...oooh, i luuuv guessing games...do i win a jellybean if i get it right?
hmmm, historian...historian...oh, i know! pick me! pick me! its...its...meh, i got nothing.

 

[Caratacus]

The nearest I can get through the magic of Google is this article which you need a subscription to read

'ISRAEL IS LAID WASTE; HIS SEED IS NO MORE': WHAT IF MERNEPTAH'S SCRIBES WERE TELLING THE TRUTH?

Keith W. Whitelam
University of Stirling

- So it seems to have something to do with biblical scholarship or Israel.

Is the historian well-known?

 

[max]

Is he well known?

Indeed he is well-known.
He fits a distinct category...

 

[Caratacus]

 

[max]

think about it - who is he denigrating?

The relativists of course!

 

[Caratacus]

Aha! Could it be "Windy", as he's known to his chums? aka "Shotgun Keith"?

 

[max]

shotgun Kieth

Hah. Good guess, it certainly makes sense.
But no, not Windy.
You're heading there...

 

[Caratacus]

I'm only allowing myself three guesses.

So #2 -

Richard ("RJ") Evans?


And another quote:

"The trouble with history is that you study it in reverse, so everything can appear to have an immediate cause and effect." - Richard Evans

 

[Caratacus]

"The principal task of history is to explain and interpret, not to issue moral judgments." - Richard Evans

 

[max]

Nope, not Evans.

"Gender becomes implicated in the conception and construction of power itself."

- J.W. Scott

 

[Caratacus]

"The only statistics I have faith in are the ones I, myself, falsified." - Winston Churchill

 

[max]

ok. Caratacus, the historian was Geoff Elton.







(Derr..) lol

 

[Caratacus]

All right, another clue... hmmmm.... thinks.....

OK, guess #3 -

Sir Geoffrey Elton!

 

[SimpaticO]

Ok, guys! I've got to more quotes, both made originally by JFK.

"We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it"

"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside"

 

[loquasagacious]

G.R. Elton would be the obvious candidate, he is refering to post-modernism i believe.

"post-modernism is the intellectual equivalent of crack" - Elton

 

[ujuphleg]

"Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful" -Flaubert

I LOVE THAT QUOTE!!