Is it possible that, after all, “history has no sense,” that it teaches us nothing, and that the immense past was only the weary rehearsal of the mistakes that the future is destined to make on a larger stage and scale? | |
— Will and Ariel Durant | |
From their book: “The Lessons Of History“ | |
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Posts Tagged ‘The Lessons Of History’
A Weary Rehearsal?
Posted in History, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged History, Philosophy, Quotes, The Lessons Of History, Time, Will and Ariel Durant on December 13, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Precarious Fools
Posted in Economics, History, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Philosophy, Quotes, The Lessons Of History, Will and Ariel Durant on November 19, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Since man is a moment in astronomic time, a transient guest of the earth, a spore of his species, a scion of his race, a composite of body, character, and mind, a member of a family and a community, a believer or doubter of a faith, a unit in an economy, perhaps a citizen in a state or a soldier in an army, we may ask under the corresponding heads — astronomy, geology, geography, biology, ethnology, psychology, morality, religion, economics, politics, and war — what history has to say about the nature, conduct, and prospects of man. It is a precarious enterprise, and only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed. | |
— Will and Ariel Durant | |
From their book: “The Lessons Of History“ | |
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