The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.
I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading.
Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.
No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.
The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'
We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.