Quote by Walter Bagehot
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. – Walter Bagehot

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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other mens thoughts, to speak other mens words, to follow other mens habits. – Walter Bagehot

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Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history. – Murray Gell-Mann

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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. – Eric Hoffer, The True Believer

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Events in the past may roughly be divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. – W.R. Inge, Assessments and Anticipations

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