Marc Bloch Quotes

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.
Marc Bloch

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.
Marc Bloch

The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings.
Marc Bloch

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 Bloch

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.
Marc Bloch

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Marc Bloch Quotes

Type: Historian Quotes Category: French Historian Quotes Date of Birth: July 6, 1886 Date of Death: June 16, 1944 Nationality: French Find on Amazon: Marc Bloch Related Authors: Carter G. Woodson Howard Zinn Will Durant Lord Acton Hannah Arendt Michel Foucault Tacitus Thucydides Herodotus	But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding. Marc Bloch 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. Marc Bloch The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings. Marc Bloch 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 Bloch The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. Marc Bloch