
Top 10 Febvre Quotes
#1. It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word.
Lucien Febvre
#3. Know, then," said he, "that I myself am the destiny - the demon, as thou sayest, by whom I am persecuted and destroyed, that my conscience is loaded with guilt, nay, with the stain of a shameful, infamous, and mortal crime,
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#4. 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
#5. A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.
Lucien Febvre
#7. If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.
Lucien Febvre
#8. It's not a matter of how small you are. Still you are important; you matter.
Debasish Mridha
#9. I love cleaning. I love mopping the floor. If you need your floor mopped, I'm there.
Saoirse Ronan
#10. Nobody can see pain. They have no frame of reference for pain that's happening to someone else. They can only see inactivity - which they interpret as laziness.
Elizabeth Haynes
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