History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.
The translation called good has original value as a work of art.
This is a mission and a vision to do good as well as doing well.
Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.
All history is contemporary history.
The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.