“Immature thought is predominately purposive and utopian. Thought which rejects purpose altogether is the thought of old age. Mature thought combines purpose with observation and analysis.” — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
“If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use - these two factors… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share
It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry. — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
“Progress in human affairs, whether in science or in history or in society, has come mainly through the bold readiness of human beings not… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
