To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree

Quote by Peter Gay

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Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

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And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to...

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My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

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What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

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There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small...

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My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud,...

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To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to...

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