Thursday, February 21, 2013

Today's pensee

If you asked my colleagues:  what is the purpose of history, or what is the nature of history, or what is history about, you would get a pretty blank stare.  The difference between good historians and bad historians is that the good ones can manage without an answer to such questions, and the bad ones cannot.
-- Tony Judt, Talking the Twentieth Century
 
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