Braudel On History Quotes & Sayings

Inside her it was as if death didn't exist, as if love could weld her, as if eternity were renewal. — Clarice Lispector

Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. Nor is it only political history which benefits most, for every historical landscape - political, economic, social, even geographical - is illumined by the intermittent flare of the event. — Fernand Braudel

Even knowing that my presence brought a shadow over the lives of my loved ones, I can't regret the experiences I've had with them. They gave me life, becoming an integral part of my soul. They healed me when I was broken and somehow they recovered those parts of me, I thought lost forever. — J.D. Stroube

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician. — Jerry Cantrell

The primary factor that enables our government to peddle economic snake oil is the dollar's unique role as the world's reserve currency, and our creditors' willingness to preserve its status. By buying up dollars and loaning them back to us through Treasury debt, productive countries give American politicians cart blanche to play Santa Claus. — Peter Schiff

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. — Fernand Braudel

Modern history, both early and late, was made by Europeans, who "built a world around Europe", as historians "know", according to Braudel. That is indeed the "knowledge" of the European historians who themselves "invented" history and then put it to good use. There is not even an inkling of suspicion that it may have been the other way around, that maybe it was the world that made Europe. — Andre Gunder Frank

Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history. — Fernand Braudel

We are magnifying the messenger and consequently minimizing the message. — A.W. Tozer

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

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

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history. — Fernand Braudel

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

Missing the mark is one of the ways in which we learn to hit the target. — Eric Butterworth