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Lucien Febvre Quotes

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

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

Lucien Febvre
History, Historical, Lessons

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

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

Lucien Febvre
History, Facts, Collectors

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)

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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