If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
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It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat 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.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
We can't let the past be forgotten.
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