All history is contemporary history.

This is a mission and a vision to do good as well as doing well.

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.

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human... No people will be truly free till all are free.

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.