Frasi di A. J. P. Taylor

Alan John Percivale Taylor è stato uno storico, giornalista e presentatore televisivo britannico.



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✵ 25. Marzo 1906 – 7. Settembre 1990
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A. J. P. Taylor: Frasi in inglese

“A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.”

A.J.P. Taylor libro The Origins of the Second World War

The Origins of the Second World War ([1961] 1962), Ch. 7, p. 134

“In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men’s behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction”

"The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p 34
The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939 (1957)

“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”

Mon the Rangers
The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939 (1957)

“Taylor's Law states: "The Foreign Office knows no secrets."”

English History 1914 – 1945 ([1965] 1975), "Revised Bibliography", p. 730

“Like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.”

Referring to Napoleon III, in "Mistaken Lessons from the Past", The Listener (6 June 1963)

“Why should knowledge of where I came from tell me where I am going to?”

'Moving with the Times', The Observer, 22 October 1961

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