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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
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 the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
The only reason to keep talking about history is if you are juxtaposing it with the world that we live in today, if you are learning something about our world by looking at the way they shaped their world.
What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.