Marc Bloch Quotes

• 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

  Spring, Two, History

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

  Marc Bloch

  History, Understanding, Cabinets

  Marc Bloch (1992). “The Historian's Craft”, p.10, 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 Bloch

  Knows

  Marc Bloch (1992). “The Historian's Craft”, p.8, Manchester University Press

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

  Marc Bloch

  Definitions, Facts, Historian

  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 Bloch

  Lying, History, Giants

  Marc Bloch (1992). “The Historian's Craft”, p.22, Manchester University Press

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• Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

  Marc Bloch

  Doubt, Instruments

  "The Historian's Craft". Book by Marc Bloch, p. 36, 1949.

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