History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

  • -- Philip Guedalla 瓦德拉

历史重演。历史学家彼此重复。

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People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

人们走的路越远越好,走的路越走越远,走的路越走越远,走的路越走越远,走的路越走越远,犯的错误也越多。然后,历史学家们对这个混乱的非线性过程进行总结,使它看起来像一条简单的直线。

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

没有过去的国家在某些方面是矛盾的。造就一个国家的是过去,证明一个国家反对其他国家的正当性的是过去,历史学家是创造历史的人。

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

如果历史不断重演,而意想不到的事情总是发生,那么人类一定无法从经验中学习。

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

历史会重演,这是历史的错误之一。