When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.
You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
When I was a kid, I loved history because history to me was a big story.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
When you're part of history, you don't know it. You're just sort of living your life.