No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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.
No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.