We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?
What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.
History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!
History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.