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Edward Hallett Carr Quotes

Change is certain. Progress is not Picture Quote #1

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization Picture Quote #1

Study the historian before you begin to study the facts Picture Quote #1

The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present Picture Quote #1

History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period has broadened the struggle in a revolutionary way. Man now seeks to understand, and act on, not only his environment, but himself; and this has added, so to speak, a new dimension to reason and a new dimension to history Picture Quote #1

History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger’s slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him Picture Quote #1

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It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry Picture Quote #1

The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context Picture Quote #1

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Change is certain. Progress is not (Edward Hallett Carr Quotes) What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization (Edward Hallett Carr Quotes) Study the historian before you begin to study the facts (Edward Hallett Carr Quotes) The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present (Edward Hallett Carr Quotes) History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period has broadened the struggle in a revolutionary way. Man now seeks to understand, and act on, not only his environment, but himself; and this has added, so to speak, a new dimension to reason and a new dimension to history (Edward Hallett Carr Quotes) History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger’s slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him (Edward Hallett Carr Quotes) It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry (Edward Hallett Carr Quotes) The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context (Edward Hallett Carr Quotes)