Marc Bloch Quotes
- Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.
- The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.
- 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…
- But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.
- 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…
- The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which…