“What history is not biased? Show me a historian, a real historian who is not biased!...History is never objective.”
“History never repeats itself, historians do.”
“History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.”
“A novelist is really nothing more than an historian of a people who have no history.”
“What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.”
“(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events that I arbitrarily chose to write of. But to my mind, a man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if, indeed, such man exists.”