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“Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.”
― The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
― The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
“Die Natur soll der sichtbare Geist, der Geist die unsichtbare Natur sein. Hier also, in der absoluten Identität des Geistes in uns und der Natur außer uns, muß sich das Problem, wie eine Natur außer uns möglich sei, auflösen.”
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“Sociability belongs to the most dangerous, even destructive inclinations, since it brings us into contact with beings the great majority of whom are morally bad and intellectually dull or perverted.”
― Parerga and Paralipomena
― Parerga and Paralipomena
“The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.”
― The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
― The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
“As to the ancient historians, from Herodotus to Tacitus, we credit them as far as they relate things probable and credible, and no further: for if we do, we must believe the two miracles which Tacitus relates were performed by Vespasian, that of curing a lame man, and a blind man, in just the same manner as the same things are told of Jesus Christ by his historians. We must also believe the miracles cited by Josephus, that of the sea of Pamphilia opening to let Alexander and his army pass, as is related of the Red Sea in Exodus. These miracles are quite as well authenticated as the Bible miracles, and yet we do not believe them; consequently the degree of evidence necessary to establish our belief of things naturally incredible, whether in the Bible or elsewhere, is far greater than that which obtains our belief to natural and probable things.”
― The Age of Reason
― The Age of Reason
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