4 Quotes & Sayings By Marc Bloch

Marc Bloch, born in 1887, was a French historian whose work helped shape the French historical profession. He was a historian, ethnologist, sociologist, and political scientist. He taught at the universities of Strasbourg and Paris. He later became Professor at the Collège de France for nearly two decades Read more

His works are often studied as examples of the history of ideas.

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The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men. Marc Bloch
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Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge. Marc Bloch
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History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical. Marc Bloch