What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.

Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.

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.

Change is certain. Progress is not.

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.