有关历史、哲学的引言数则如下:
英國首相Winston Churchill是政治家,但因歷史著作,得到1953年的諾貝爾文學獎,丘吉尔有名言:
“历史将会宽待我,因我有心好好写它。”----丘吉尔
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
“历史是一种哲学,依靠典范人物以身载道而示现。”
History is philosophy teaching by examples.
~Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War
“没有比历史更大的学问了,如果有人居然可以研究历史,却没有拥有一种哲学的信念,那不是我可以理解的。”
For me there is no greater subject than history. How a man can study it and not be forced to become a philosopher, I cannot tell. ~George E. Wilson
“缺少哲学的历史,对我而言,是既聋又哑、无声无息缺少人味。”
Without philosophy, history seems to me to be deaf and dumb. ~Ferdinand Baur, Symbolik und Mythologic
在旧事或昔年诗卷中重新检视历史有何用?
美国作家Joe Murray, 在这么说:
“我越来越常重读历史。我发现,就理解时事而言,
历史往往比每天的报纸更具启发性。”
“ More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers. ”
Joe Murray, "History updates current events,"
Spartanburg Herald-Journal, May 10th 1992
“上帝不能改变过去,但历史学家可以改写过去。”
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
~Samuel Butler, "Prose Observations"
土耳其的名言说:
Tarih yazmak tarih yapmak kadar mühimdir .
其意说:
Writing History的重要性,不亚于Making History。
再多解释一下:
“解明历史事件的发展脉络、制度思想的演变和当时人物的心迹作为, 并加以阐述,其重要性不亚于创造历史。”