Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.