Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

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Last updated on November 18, 2024.

Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton was an English historian. He was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford.

English - Celebrity | January 15, 1914 - January 26, 2003

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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

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

Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

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

Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

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

"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

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

Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors.

Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper