Ajaloo ilu

Mõned minu lemmiktsitaadid ajaloost. Ma pole nendega küll alati lõpuni nõus, kuid tabavad on need ütlused sellegipoolest.

Oscar Wilde:
Ajalugu on üks suur tagarääkimine.

Leopold von Ranke:
Kõige õnnelikum aeg inimkonna jaoks on tühjad leheküljed ajalooraamatus.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:
Ajaloost õpime seda, et inimene ei õpi ajaloost.

Noam Chomsky:
On väga hea põhjus, miks keegi ajalugu ei õpi. See lihtsalt õpetab liiga palju.

Pearl Buck:
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Winston Churchill:
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

Konrad Adenauer:
History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided.

Bill Vaughan:
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.

Edgar Saltus:
Skepticism is history's bedfellow.

Fritz Stern:
The historian must serve two masters - the past and the present.

Marcel Trudel:
There is nothing more dangerous than history used as a defense, or history used for preaching; history used as a tool is no longer history.

Ken Burns:
People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

Jacob Burckhardt:
History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.