Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Quotes

• History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.

  Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

  Might, Happened

  Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Valerie Pearl, Blair Worden (1981). “History & imagination: essays in honour of H. R. Trevor-Roper”, Duckworth Publishing

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• Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."

  Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

  History, Leviathan, Logic

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• To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading.

  Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

  Reading, Agreement, Minorities

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• 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

  Learning, Science, Giving

  Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper (1966). “Historical essays”

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• ... 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

  Inspirational, Weed, Real

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• The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors.

  Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

  History, Victory, Liberalism

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• "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

  Believe, Philosophical, History

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