Fernand Braudel Quotes
- The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was…
- Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.
- Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as…
- The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.
- History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
- Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.
- Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.
- Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect…