Ranke Quotes

#1. History is no criminal court

Leopold Von Ranke

#2. She had lost interest in her marriage. There was nothing else to say. It was a prison.
'No, I'll tell you what it is , I'm indifferent to it . I am bored with happy couples. I don't believe in them. They're false.They're deceiving themselves.

James Salter

#3. You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

Leopold Von Ranke

#4. Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.

Uta Ranke-Heinemann

#5. If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#6. Every generation is equidistant from God.

Leopold Von Ranke

#7. But I tell you, Henri, that every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.

Jeanette Winterson

#8. It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

Leopold Von Ranke

#9. Calvin was virtually the founder of America.

Leopold Von Ranke

#10. Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas.

Richard Pombo

#11. I am more afraid of doing what is wrong than of dying.

Philip Doddridge

#12. Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.

Leopold Von Ranke

#13. I love Champagne and I love to drink it out of any kind of beautiful glass.

Martha Stewart

#14. There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.

Peter S. Beagle

#15. In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

Leopold Von Ranke

#16. To history has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages. To such high offices this work does not aspire. It wants only to show what actually [essentially?] happened (wie es eigentlich gewesen).

Leopold Von Ranke

#17. All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.

Leopold Von Ranke

#18. He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

Leopold Von Ranke

#19. I will keep playing as long as my body lets me, and as long as I'm wanted by my listeners. Because music is the only thing that keeps me going.

Ravi Shankar

#20. Jesus was a friend of women, the first and practically the last friend women had in the church.

Uta Ranke-Heinemann