History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.
I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.
History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.
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.