Erich Auerbach Quotes & Sayings

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. — Erich Auerbach

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality. — Erich Auerbach

The Scripture stories do not, like Homer's, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us - they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels. — Erich Auerbach