Lucien Febvre quotes

“If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.”
-- Lucien Febvre

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“History is the daughter of time.”
-- Lucien Febvre

Source : 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.”
-- Lucien Febvre

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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.”
-- Lucien Febvre

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“It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word.”
-- Lucien Febvre

Source : "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.”

“All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.”

“The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.”

“A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.”

Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”

“By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.”

“A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.”

“When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.”

“Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.”

“There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective members...This language at the present day would appear as wild as that great part of what we now hear from the same quarter will be thought, when we shall have received further lessons from that best oracle of wisdom, experience.”

“In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.”

Source : "'Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness' by Alexandra Fuller". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. September 19, 2011.