Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  History, Redeemer

• History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Law, History, May

• The scientific observer of the realm of nature is in a sense naturally and inevitably disinterested. At least, nothing in the natural scene can arouse his bias. Furthermore, he stands completely outside of the natural so that his mind, whatever his limitations, approximates pure mind. The observer of the realm of history cannot be disinterested in the same way, for two reasons: first, he must look at history from some locus in history; secondly, he is to a certain degree engaged in its ideological conflicts.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Science, Two, History

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