History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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.
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 indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
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.
Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
History is information. Memory is part of your identity.
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.