To understand another time is to expand the boundaries of wh... - Lucien Febvre

"To understand another time is to expand the boundaries of what we know to be possible."

Lucien Febvre Imagination

Historian French 1878–1956

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"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."

"Imagination is more powerful than knowledge."

"The world is full of wonders if you know where to look."

"You have the imagination of a child, Lucy"

"The world is full of mysteries waiting to be solved."