Von Ranke Quotes

#1. Landscape is history made visible.

J. B. Jackson

#2. goal of spirituality is not to extract from you all desire and passion. The call of Jesus is the exact opposite - delight

Erwin Raphael McManus

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

Leopold Von Ranke

#4. We are all a bunch of human-shaped wounds on each other's hearts. And that is why art exists.

Erin Van Vuren

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

Leopold Von Ranke

#6. 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

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

Leopold Von Ranke

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

Leopold Von Ranke

#9. History is no criminal court

Leopold Von Ranke

#10. Don't just stand there and nod. The mind observes and cogitates, the heart engages, and I would encourage you to engage with the process.

Etienne De L'Amour

#11. Steve talked to me a lot about being abandoned and the pain that caused, he said. It made him independent. He followed the beat of a different drummer, and that came from being in a different world than he was born into.

Walter Isaacson

#12. The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

William Hazlitt

#13. When things are running perfectly smoothly, with people and boxes on charts enjoying a one-to-one relationship, then the processes and infrastructure have caught up to the business.

Eric Schmidt

#14. Head Smashed In, may I help you?

Dave Barry

#15. It wasn't me who was wrong, it was the world.

Lelouch Vi Britannia

#16. Thank you. You're a kind person. It doesn't cost anything to be kind. People forget. Kindness doesn't cost a dime.

Allan Wolf

#17. Calvin was virtually the founder of America.

Leopold Von Ranke

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

Leopold Von Ranke

#19. Every generation is equidistant from God.

Leopold Von Ranke

#20. The Bible would not have told us to take up the whole armor of God in order to withstand evil if evil could have been withstood without doing that.

Stormie O'martian

#21. Priests are pretty much the same the world over. They seem to feel that their exclusive contact with God gives them a certain job security.

David Eddings

#22. Never trust another person to do your thinking for you." That sounded a little strange to Owen, but he accepted it.

Jeff Wheeler

#23. New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

Francis Picabia

#24. 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