It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.
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.
When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun.
Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.
It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history.
Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.
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