All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history.