“All history is modern history.”
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
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Wallace Stevens278
American poet 1879–1955Related quotes
“The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.”
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) American poet, novelist, and literary critic
As quoted in Vision and Leadership in Sustainable Development (1999) by Chris Maser.
“All history is contemporary history.”
Benedetto Croce (1866–1952) Italian writer, philosopher, politician
[Allan, George, 1972, Croce and Whitehead on Concrescence, 2, 2, Process Studies, 95–111, http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2328, . Allan lists the sources Croce, History as the Story of Liberty, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1941 (see [Croce, 1938] ) and Croce, History: Its Theory and Practice, New York: Russell & Russell, 1960., 10.5840/process19722215, 27 June 2012, https://web.archive.org/web/20111102045431/http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2328, 2 November 2011, dead]
“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) British academic historian and Marxist historiographer
Chap. 3 : What Can History Tell Us about Contemporary Society?
On History (1997)
Arnold Hauser (1892–1978) Hungarian art historian
Source: The Social History of Art', Volume II. Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, 1999, Chapter 9. The Baroque of the Catholic Courts
Greil Marcus (1945) American historian
When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison (2010).
Learned Hand (1872–1961) American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge
"Sources of Tolerance" (1930); also in The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses (1952), p. 79.
Extra-judicial writings