To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. (Erich Auerbach)

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.

Erich Auerbach

Related topics

history technique write

Related quotes

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences. View quote
Albert Camus
I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened. View quote
George W. Bush
When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine. View quote
H. G. Wells
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. View quote
Mark Twain
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history. View quote
Plutarch