"I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely—that is to say, acting…"

"Die Natur dieser Traurigkeit wird deutlicher, wenn man die Frage aufwirft, in wen sich denn der Geschichtsschreiber d…"

"Historicism runs counter to the specific capacity of the literary work to escape the limits of historical time, to al…"

"Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example,…"

"There are two kinds of openness, the openness of indifference—promoted with the twin purposes of humbling our intelle…"

"At every turn, the struggle for equality was resisted by many of the powerful. And some have said we should not judge…"

"Hayek ripped G. W. F. Hegel in The Counter-Revolution of Science’s third part for his “historicism”—the idea, in Haye…"

"History, however, is not a linear narrative of progress. Rights may be won and taken away; gains are never complete o…"

"Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles, if Raphael and Shakespeare had known them, should not have appeared to th…"

"It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millenni…"