I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did.

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did.

There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence.