Lion Feuchtwanger Quotes

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

There’s only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there’s no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.