From John Lukacs’ great work Historical Consciousness, 1968, Harper & Row:
“The history of a problem may be the principal approach to its diagnosis.”
“History for us has become a form of thought.” and “There is no field of human action that may not be approached, studied, described, and understood through its history.”
“The very purpose of historical knowledge is not so much accuracy as a certain kind of understanding: historical knowledge is the knowledge of human beings about other human beings.”