Famous quotes
Quotes by famous people, credited to who said them. Your own quotes must not match any of these. More are added all the time. 1,158,808 quotes Who coined it · How we decide
EnglishItalianoPolskiעבריתFrançaisPortuguêsفارسیEspañol中文РусскийDeutschالعربيةहिन्दी日本語ΕλληνικάLatina
Leopold von Ranke
7 quotes
“A collection of national histories, whether on a larger or a smaller scale, is not what we mean by Universal History, for in such a work the general connection of things is liable to be obscured. To recognise this connection, to trace the sequence of those great events which link all nations together and control their destinies, is the task which the science of Universal History undertakes.”
Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Universal History: The Oldest Historical Group of Nations and the Greeks, ed. G. W. Prothero (1884), p. xi
“But historical development does not rest on the tendency towards civilisation alone. It arises also from impulses of a very different kind, especially from the rivalry of nations engaged in conflict with each other for the possession of the soil or for political supremacy. It is in and through this conflict, affecting as it does all the domain of culture, that the great empires of history are formed. In their unceasing struggle for dominion the peculiar characteristics of each nation are modified by universal tendencies, but at the same time resist and react upon them.”
Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Universal History: The Oldest Historical Group of Nations and the Greeks, ed. G. W. Prothero (1884), p. xii
“To history has been attributed the function to judge the past, to instruct ourselves for the advantage of the future. Such a lofty function the present work does not attempt. It aims merely to show how it actually took place.”
Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘Gesch. der Röm. und Germ. Völker’, p. vii, quoted in Edward Gaylord Bourne, ‘Leopold Von Ranke’, The Sewanee Review, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Aug., 1896), p. 390
“Rigorous presentation of the facts, however conditional and lacking in beauty they may be, is without question the supreme law.”
Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘Gesch. der Röm. und Germ. Völker’, p. vii, quoted in Edward Gaylord Bourne, ‘Leopold Von Ranke’, The Sewanee Review, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Aug., 1896), p. 390
“The ultimate aim of historical writing is the bringing before us the whole truth.”
Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement quoted in Edward Gaylord Bourne, ‘Leopold Von Ranke’, The Sewanee Review, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Aug., 1896), p. 392
“You are in the first place a Christian: I am in the first place a historian. There is a gulf between us.”
Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Acton : Study of history , quoted from Lal, K. S. (2001). Historical essays. New Delhi: Radha.(43)
“Universal History would degenerate into mere theory and speculation if it were to desert the firm ground of national history, but just as little can it afford to cling to this ground alone. The history of each separate nation throws light on the history of humanity at large; but there is a general historical life, which moves progressively from one nation or group of nations to another. In the conflict between the different national groups Universal History comes into being, while, at the same time, the sense of nationality is aroused, for nations do not draw their impulses to growth from themselves alone. Nationalities so powerful and distinct as the English or the Italian are not so much the offspring of the soil and the race as of the great events through which they have passed.”
Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Universal History: The Oldest Historical Group of Nations and the Greeks, ed. G. W. Prothero (1884), pp. xii-xiii