Friday, December 17, 2004

Quotations #028

"Is this a place of many souls or just one very large one?" -- Peter Mayer, "Molly O'Malley's"

"The very progress of our studies is founded upon the inevitable opposition between generations of scholars." -- Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft, p. 4.

"Historical research with tolerate no autarchy. " -- Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft, p. 47.

"The act of inventing a lie presupposes an effort which is distasteful to the mental inertia common to the majority of men. " -- Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft, p. 99.

"Leibniz laid down exact definitions, which deprived him of the agreeable liberty to misuse his terms upon occasion." Fontenelle, in Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft, p. 175.

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