Historical Romances

Famous quotes containing the words historical and/or romances:

“By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a natural process, history a human one.... Insofar as we treat man as a part of nature—for instance in a biological survey of evolution—we are precisely not treating him as a historical being. As a historically developing being, he is set over against nature, both as a knower and as a doer.”
—Owen Barfield (b. 1898)

“Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.”
—Johann G. Hamann (1730–1788)