History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social…

- Edward Hallett Carr

History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishm…

- Edward Hallett Carr

The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and…

- Edward Hallett Carr

Change is certain. Progress is not.

- Edward Hallett Carr

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…

- Edward Hallett Carr

History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the pr…

- Edward Hallett Carr

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

- Edward Hallett Carr

History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period has broadened…

- Edward Hallett Carr

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 th…

- Edward Hallett Carr