Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges famous quotes

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History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.
-- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

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History is and should be a science.
-- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

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History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.
-- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

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Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de
-- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

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History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.
-- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.
If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
History is the great propagator of doubt.
In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.
Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting.
There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.

Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges famous quotes

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