Marc Bloch quotes
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“But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.”
-- Marc BlochSource : Marc Bloch (1992). “The Historian's Craft”, p.10, Manchester University Press
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“History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.”
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“Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.”
-- Marc BlochSource : "The Historian's Craft". Book by Marc Bloch, p. 36, 1949.
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“The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.”
-- Marc BlochSource : Marc Bloch (1992). “The Historian's Craft”, p.40, Manchester University Press
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“The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.”
-- Marc BlochSource : Marc Bloch (1992). “The Historian's Craft”, p.22, Manchester University Press
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“The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.”
-- Marc BlochSource : Marc Bloch (1992). “The Historian's Craft”, p.8, Manchester University Press
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“We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.”
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“The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.”
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Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2005.
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Source : Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin
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