Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About History
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History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.
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"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.
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The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
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