History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened. Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper More Quotes by Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper More Quotes From Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism." Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper leviathanlogichistory To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading. Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper minoritiesreadingagreement The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors. Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper liberalismvictoryhistory The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve. Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper learninggivingscience ... the death of the spirit which threatens every man unless he is conscious of the danger and has a real purpose which can keep it alive and enable it to thrust its way through the choking weeds and thorns to the air and to the sun Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper weedrealinspirational "Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They call upon it to explain the problems of their own time, to give to those problems a philosophical context, a continuum in which they may be reduced to proportion and perhaps made intelligible." Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper philosophicalbelievehistory
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