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 Copy Share Image
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities,… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
“Similarly, when it is not the past that we are studying, but some set of phenomena relating to a principle still active, we expect… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
“Hitler kept the truth from his servile masses. Instead of intellectual persuasion he gave them emotional suggestion.” — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
“When it is a question of ascertaining whether or not some human act has really taken place, [historians] cannot be too painstaking. If they… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
“The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
“No doubt they thought that by allowing themselves to become martyrs to their nerves they were giving proof of a fine stoicism, just as… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding. — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge. — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
![“When it is a question of ascertaining whether or not some human act has really taken place, [historians] cannot be too painstaking. If they proceed to the reasons for that act, they are content with the merest appearance, ordinarily founded upon one of those maxims of common-place psychology which…” quote by Marc Bloch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0d8/marc-bloch-29830_historian_when-it-is-a-question-of-ascertaining-wh_2022138.jpg)
