— Hans Urs Von Balthasar Swedish Catholic theologian 1905 - 1988
First Glance at Adrienne von Speyr (1968)
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works 1892 - 1973
On Fairy-Stories (1939), Context: The Gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy-stories. … But this story has entered History and the primary world; … It has pre-eminently the "inner consistency of reality." There is no tale ever told that men would rather find was true, and none which so many sceptical men have accepted as true on its own merits. For the Art of it has the supremely convincing tone of Primary Art, that is, of Creation.... this story is supreme; and it is true. Art has been verified. God is the Lord, of angels, and of men — and of elves. Legend and History have met and fused.
— Cees Nooteboom Dutch writer 1933
The Following Story (1991)
— George Kubler American art historian 1912 - 1996
The Shape of Time, 1982, p. 8
— Harry Turtledove American novelist, short story author, essayist, historian 1949
Interview at the World Science Fiction Convention (25 June 1998) http://www.chicon.org/gohs/turtldov.htm
— John Stuart Mill British philosopher and political economist 1806 - 1873
John Stuart Mill. Michelet.On the writing of English history. Complete Works Vol 20. Page 221.http://files.libertyfund.org/pll/pdf/Mill_0223-20_EBk_v7.0.pdf
— Antonio Gramsci Italian writer, politician, theorist, sociologist and linguist 1891 - 1937
Letter from Prison (21 June 1919), translated by Hamish Henderson, Edinburgh University Student Publications.
— Ludwig von Mises austrian economist 1881 - 1973
Liberalism (1927), Context: Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect — better because they alone give promise of final success. This is the fundamental error from which Fascism suffers and which will ultimately cause its downfall. The victory of Fascism in a number of countries is only an episode in the long series of struggles over the problem of property. The next episode will be the victory of Communism. The ultimate outcome of the struggle, however, will not be decided by arms, but by ideas. It is ideas that group men into fighting factions, that press the weapons into their hands, and that determine against whom and for whom the weapons shall be used. It is they alone, and not arms, that, in the last analysis, turn the scales.
So much for the domestic policy of Fascism. That its foreign policy, based as it is on the avowed principle of force in international relations, cannot fail to give rise to an endless series of wars that must destroy all of modern civilization requires no further discussion. To maintain and further raise our present level of economic development, peace among nations must be assured. But they cannot live together in peace if the basic tenet of the ideology by which they are governed is the belief that one's own nation can secure its place in the community of nations by force alone.
It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history. But though its policy has brought salvation for the moment, it is not of the kind which could promise continued success. Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.
Ch. 1 : The Foundations of Liberal Policy § 10 : The Argument of Fascism
— Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand French salon-holder 1697 - 1780
Il a inventé l'histoire.
Referring to Voltaire; quoted in Édouard Fournier, L'esprit dans l'histoire: Recherches et curiosités sur les mots historiques, third edition (1879), ch. XLVII (p. 306).
— Nayef Al-Rodhan philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author 1959
Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.138
— Sarah Grimké American abolitionist 1792 - 1873
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837), Letter 2 (July 17, 1837).
— Steve Maraboli 1975
Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), Context: No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?
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