The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

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.

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

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.

All history is contemporary history.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.