“History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.”
Source: Silas Marner, The lifted veil, and Brother Jacob. Scenes of clerical life
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.”
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”
“Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.”
“History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.”
“History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.”
“Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.”
Source: Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)
“Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.”