Quotes About Repetition

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

What experience and history teach is this—that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

there's so goddamn much history, it just can't help repeating itself.

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

Enough anecdotes make a pattern.

It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.

No." "You always say that word," he said. "Is it supposed to mean something?

Repeated exposure to fear-inducing stimuli creates familiarity, which in turn greatly reduces anxiety.

We read history in order not to have to repeat it. When I

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philosophers have warned us: if we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat

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You know when things get inside you and you can't stop going round and round the same piece of misery.

Oh God, that conversation last night or this morning or whenever that devil-ridden scrap of nightmare had been. How could two rational beings go on and on simply saying the same awful things to each other week after week, month after month?

You rail on us all for not being saints. Yes, yes, yes. And when I stop that railing I shall be dead. It is the only thing I know and I shall cry it out again and again, like a tedious little bird with only one song.

All this had happened before, perhaps a million times, and because of this was doomed. There was no ordinary future any more, only this ecstatic tormented terrified present. The future had passed through the present like a sword. We were already, even eye to eye and lip to lip, deep in the horrors to come.

What meaning has a compliment if one hears it night and day.

The music could no more repeat itself than could snowflakes, and could no more fail of beauty.

If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

Si todos los seres humanos comprendieran la Historia, podrían dejar de cometer los mismos estúpidos errores una y otra vez.