History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
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 the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
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 history.
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 an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.