History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
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.
History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.
History is, of course, a made thing. It does not exist by itself in anything like a recognizable form.
I feel like history is about going and discovering the great human stories that just are every bit as relevant as anything that's going on today.
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
History is history. What is done is done.
History is history.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.