Quotes About Recurrence

History is the same story with different costumes.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

History repeats itself.

I have done it again.

The result of your not listening to your experience is that you keep re-living it, over and over again.

Everything in culture moves in a cyclical way.

All history is nothing but wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other.

One can no more prevent thought from recurring to an idea than one can the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the guilty man calls it remorse; God upheaves the soul as he does the ocean.

We've been here before, haven't we? Last time you were starving, I gave you my blood. It was a little homoerotic, maybe, but I'm secure in my sexuality.

The way our subconscious tells us that if it never happened before, it never will. But if it happened, especially pretty recently, it tells us it's about to happen again.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.

History does repeat itself, but must it do so so frequently?

Rub R. Stamp has one virtue: he can repeat whatever is told him.

Our ideas are like boomerangs, when you throw them they are destined to come back.

They always come back, but we don't always answer.

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.

There are recurring cycles, ups and downs, but the course of events is essentially the same, with small variations. It has been said that history repeats itself. This is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes.

I once met a person three nights in a row and she told me the same story three times over. Unless you're discovering a new continent, there is no way you have anything new to tell people you bump into serially.

War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live. Only thru annihilation of distance in every respect, as the conveyance of intelligence, transport of passengers and supplies and transmission of energy will conditions be brought about some day, insuring permanency of friendly relations.

War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live.

There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.