Gertrude Himmelfarb
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Gertrude Himmelfarb, also known as Bea Kristol, is an American historian. She has been a leader of conservative interpretations of history and historiography. She has written extensively on intellectual history, with a focus on Britain and the Victorian era, as well as on contemporary society and culture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth8 August 1922
CountryUnited States of America
hero soul villain
Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.
freedom independent reality
The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions and class relations. It denies a will and volition that are capable of shaping the course of history. It denies an individuality that is not reducible to class. It denies both the idea and the reality of freedom, a freedom that is something more than the "bourgeois" freedom to buy and sell. It denies a morality that transcends class interests. And it denies the spirituality of man.
freedom liberty absolutes
absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.
seductive assurance
Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.