The historian must be a friend to the past while remaining c... - Lucien Febvre

"The historian must be a friend to the past while remaining critical of it."

Lucien Febvre History

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."

"I've seen a lot of things in my time."

"That's how we archaeologists tell time."

"We must learn from history or be doomed to repeat it."

"Every artifact tells a story."