Mommsen Quotes

In 1894, historian Theodor Mommsen wrote that the root cause of the anti-Semitic ‘affliction' was ‘envy and the basest instincts,... a barbaric hatred for education, freedom, and humanism. (Gotz Aly)
Wittgenstein expressed more than once the fear that his writings would be destroyed by fire. He related with horror how the great historian, Mommsen, had lost a manuscript volume of his History of Rome in that way. View quote
Norman Malcolm