“The burden of the historian in our time is to re-establish the dignity of historical studies on a basis that will make them consonant with the aims and purposes of the intellectual community at large, that is, transform historical studies in such a way as to allow the historian to participate positi…”— Hayden White, abuss.narod.ru
“The historian serves no one well by constructing a specious continuity between the present world and that which preceded it. On the contrary, we require a history that will educate us to discontinuity more than ever before; for discontinuity, disruption, and chaos is our lot.”— Hayden White, abuss.narod.ru
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history, is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”— Aldous Huxley, amazon.com