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Top 8 Gertrude Himmelfarb Quotes (2025 Update)

Gertrude Himmelfarb Quote: “Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.”

1. “Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.”

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

Gertrude Himmelfarb Quote: “Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.”

2. “Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.”

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

Gertrude Himmelfarb Quote: “The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.”

3. “The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.”

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

Gertrude Himmelfarb Quote: “Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.”

4. “Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.”

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

Gertrude Himmelfarb Quote: “For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions of the cunning and the powerful, in order to maintain or to acquire an unnatural and unjust superiority over the rest of their fellow creatures.”

5. “For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions of the cunning and the powerful, in order to maintain or to acquire an unnatural and unjust superiority over the rest of their fellow creatures.”

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

Gertrude Himmelfarb Quote: “The separation of church and state, however interpreted, did not signify the separation of church and society.”

6. “The separation of church and state, however interpreted, did not signify the separation of church and society.”

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

Gertrude Himmelfarb Quote: “The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times.”

7. “The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times.”

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

Gertrude Himmelfarb Quote: “To look upon religion as the ultimate source of morality, and hence of a good society and a sound policy, is not demeaning to religion. On the contrary, it pays religion – and God – the great tribute of being essential to the welfare of mankind. And it does credit to man as well, who is deemed capable of subordinating his lower nature to his higher, of venerating and giving obeisance to something above himself.”

8. “To look upon religion as the ultimate source of morality, and hence of a good society and a sound policy, is not demeaning to religion. On the contrary, it pays religion – and God – the great tribute of being essential to the welfare of mankind. And it does credit to man as well, who is deemed capable of subordinating his lower nature to his higher, of venerating and giving obeisance to something above himself.”

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

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