Lucien Febvre quotes
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“If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.”
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“History is the daughter of time.”
-- Lucien FebvreSource : Lucien Febvre (1982). “The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century: The Religion of Rabelais”, p.2, Harvard University Press
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“A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.”
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“What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded men, suffered with them and shared their joys.”
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“It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word.”
-- Lucien FebvreSource : "Civilisation: Evolution of a Word and a Group of Ideas" (1930)
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“Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.”
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“The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.”
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Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”
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“Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.”
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Source : "'Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness' by Alexandra Fuller". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. September 19, 2011.
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