The past is always being reinterpreted; this is not a flaw b... - Lucien Febvre

"The past is always being reinterpreted; this is not a flaw but the very nature of historical understanding."

Lucien Febvre Knowledge

Historian French 1878–1956

More from Lucien Febvre

"History is not the past. It is the present and the future too."

"To be a historian is to be a man committed to truth."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

"Understanding the past requires imagination as much as scholarship."

"We're not just after treasure. We're preserving history."

"The mind is humanity's greatest tool."

"A tidy room reflects a tidy mind."

"You can learn a lot about a person by how they keep their space."