Gertrude Himmelfarb Quotes

• Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Suicide, Creativity, History

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• As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Liberty, Essentials, Utterance

  Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage

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• La combinación marxista de materialismo y determinismo es fatalmente antihumanista. Niega una conciencia, una mente, que sea independiente de las condiciones materiales y de las relaciones de clase. Niega una voluntad y una volición capaces de moldear el curso de la historia. Niega una individualidad que no sea reducible a la clase. Niega tanto la idea como la realidad de la libertad, una libertad que es algo más que la libertad "burguesa" de comprar y vender. Niega una moral que trascienda los intereses de clase. Y niega la espiritualidad del hombre.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Freedom, Independent, Reality

  Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage

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• Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Hero, Soul, Villain

  Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage

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• The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to the validity of the work, the integrity (and the humility) of the historian, and to the dignity of the discipline.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Integrity, Humility, Responsibility

  Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage

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• The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Real, Movement, Matter

  Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage

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• absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Freedom, Liberty, Absolutes

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• En su modalidad sentimental, la compasión es un ejercicio de indignación moral, de sentir el bien más que de hacer el bien... En su modalidad no sentimental, la compasión busca ante todo hacer el bien.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Exercise, Compassion, Feel Good

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• Para Rousseau y Mandeville la ausencia de instinto moral significaba que las leyes de la sociedad no tenían validez moral, no eran más que invenciones de los astutos y los poderosos, para mantener o adquirir una superioridad antinatural e injusta sobre el resto de sus congéneres.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Powerful, Order, Law

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• The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Past, English History, Two

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• Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Seductive, Assurance

  Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage

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