Quote by Philip Guedalla

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Summary

This quote highlights the cyclical nature of history and the often repetitive patterns that can be found throughout different time periods. It also comments on the tendency of historians to rely on and echo the ideas and interpretations of their predecessors, potentially perpetuating the same narratives and biases. Overall, the quote suggests that, despite the existence of unique events and individuals, history can be predictable and subject to the influence of established viewpoints.

Topics

History

By Philip Guedalla

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any probl

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

War

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is wh

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

Fear

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becom

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Robin G. Collingwood

Science

The truth is I am a perfect part of the exact point at which

The truth is I am a perfect part of the exact point at which all individual human beings meet and the spectrum of voices weaving themselves in between and screaming 'every sick thought you've ever had and every twisted feeling you've ever felt are what make this painting complete.

Buddy Wakefield

Truth

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous tho

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous.

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

Famous

We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethic

We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.

Science Progress Rules Trials

When I was in high school, there was 'Superbad' and 'The Gir

When I was in high school, there was 'Superbad' and 'The Girl Next Door' and 'Wedding Crashers' and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that's smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like 'Superbad.' That movie was so good and so funny.

Wedding

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into s

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw

Education Art Funny Science Philosophy

People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.

People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.

Love People Man

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Nature

The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clock

The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again.There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars.

Life Time Human Clocks Slaughterhouse Five