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The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society?... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time?

Fernand Braudel's Popular Quotes

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

- Fernand Braudel

The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the ru…

- Fernand Braudel

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

- Fernand Braudel

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.

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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 …

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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and cont…

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For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to c…

- Fernand Braudel

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

- Fernand Braudel