The historian must be a poet, not to create, but to recreate.
歷史學家必須是詩人,不是為了創(chuàng)造,而是為了重新創(chuàng)造。
The greatest happiness of the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.
思考者最大的幸福是理解可理解的事物,并默默地敬畏不可理解的事物。
The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
歷史學家是向后看的先知。
The true history of the world is the history of great men.
The man who has no inner life is the slave to his surroundings.
沒有內(nèi)心生活的人是他周圍環(huán)境的奴隸。
History has neither the desire nor the capacity to make men better or worse; it merely records what they have been and what they have done.
歷史既沒有愿望也沒有能力使人變得更好或更壞;它僅僅記錄了他們曾經(jīng)是什么以及他們做了什么。
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