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

- 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

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

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

- Fernand Braudel

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 …

- Fernand Braudel

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

- Fernand Braudel

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

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

- Fernand Braudel

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

- Fernand Braudel