The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
Jules MicheletHe who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.
Jules MicheletAt its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.
Jules MicheletHow beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.
Jules MicheletWoe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.
Jules Michelet