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Marc Bloch Quotes

Marc Bloch Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Marc Bloch
Type:
Historian
Nationality:
French
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  • 1
    But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding. Marc-BlochMarc Bloch
  • 2
    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-BlochMarc Bloch
  • 3
    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-BlochMarc Bloch
  • 4
    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-BlochMarc Bloch
  • 5
    The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. Marc-BlochMarc Bloch