Leopold von Ranke Quotes

• To history has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages. To such high offices this work does not aspire. It wants only to show what actually [essentially?] happened (wie es eigentlich gewesen).

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  Past, Judging, Office

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• It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

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  Memories, Men, History

  Leopold von Ranke (1840). “The ecclesiastical and political history of the popes of Rome during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries”

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• You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

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  Past, Yield, History

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• History is no criminal court

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  Criminals, Court

  Leopold von Ranke (1981). “The secret of world history: selected writings on the art and science of history”, Fordham Univ Pr

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• Every generation is equidistant from God.

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  Generaciones

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• In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

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  History, Political, Literature

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• He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

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  Eye, Overcoming, Goes On

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• Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.

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  Ruins, Humans

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• All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.

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  Age, Eternity, God's Presence

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• Calvin was virtually the founder of America.

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  America, Founders

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