Lucien Febvre Quotes

• If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.

  Lucien Febvre

  History, Historical, Lessons

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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

  Men, Joy, Preparation

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• A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

  Lucien Febvre

  History, Facts, Collectors

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• It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word.

  Lucien Febvre

  Waste, Wasting Time, Study

  "Civilisation: Evolution of a Word and a Group of Ideas" (1930)

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• History is the daughter of time.

  Lucien Febvre

  Daughter, History

  Lucien Febvre (1982). “The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century: The Religion of Rabelais”, p.2, Harvard University Press

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