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.
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
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither?
It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.
