Friday, 9 May 2025

Book Quotes

Quotes about the all important history:

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana.

(1863-1952), Spanish-American philosopher.

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce". Karl Marx

(1818-1883) German philosopher, political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.

"Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it". Winston Churchill

(1874-1965) British statesman, military officer, and writer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Look at those dates! They knew it already and we still haven't learned
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9 comments:

  1. 'The only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from History'.

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    1. Yes, Kitten. How could I forget my compatriot Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. This quote definitely belongs here, as well.

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    2. I just noticed, I already quoted him in 2022:
      https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2022/11/book-quotes-of-week_25.html

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    1. Indeed, Lark. So true. Unfortunately.

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    2. We do seem to keep making the same mistakes over and over, don't we?

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    3. Definitely. We never learn.

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  3. Amazing that we can't learn more from history.

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    1. I know, Lisbeth. One can only shake one's head over so much stupidity.

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