So far as we are speaking about history on the lessons, I would ask you to comment on the quotations:
- The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
(Actually the original quotation from Hegel is “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 character of mankind is its history. (Goethe)
- History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
- The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
(Actually the original quotation from Hegel is “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 character of mankind is its history. (Goethe)
- History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
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-The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
I completely agree with this quotation. Our world is cruel and we do not try making it better. Wars, violence, genocide… People cannot trust each other. In our world everyone lives for himself. And of course governments never have learned anything from history..and I think we too.
-The character of mankind is its history. (Goethe)
History is a mirror of mankind. We live in different countries with various pictures of our past. It's impossible to know the country without the most important periods in its past.
-History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
Very difficult quotation.. -We have no choice to believe that our history is our past, and not the version of the past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-That man was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
For example...Everytime I do my mathimatic lessons I promise myself that I won’t wait till the very end to start doing it but here I am , once again, lots of assignments later, still stuck in work one day before the deadline. I’m feeling a weird sense of deja vu right now....And you hope there would be a difference in your attitude when you go through the same trial for the umpteenth time but no, nothing has changed...
-I agree with Shikidim that it is impossible to build the future if you don`t know the past.
-The third quatetion is a very wise statement...There will be always some people to disagree with conventional history of our past..with other statements,opinions and versions...
Most of all I like the first topic – actually because I agree with it. That is why I would like to comment exactly on it.
To my mind, the author of this phrase wants to tell us, that we learn from our history northing, because there is still too much evil and disasters in our world. I mean people have been conducting wars, committing genocide and killing each other for the centuries. Sometimes it seems that they want only hurt others, but what for? All these terrific things are so needless, in my opinion! But people still can’t understand it or they just don’t want to do it – so the same mistakes still have been making!
That is why I think that the history, unfortunately, doesn’t teach the human of our earth, and I am afraid of a thought, that people will never learn anything good and useful from their history and their experience…=(
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As for me I absolutely agree with the first quotation: "The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history" by Hegel. This phrase is pessimistic of course, but it really reflects our reality. How many catastrophes, wars, rebellions, revolutions experienced our planet, our world! But people don't learn by their own mistakes. We continue fighting, quarreling, killing each other and our environment... But why? Why we are so thoughtless and irresponsible? I dont know...
What I can say about the second one by Goethe?
I think that it's a very interesting comparison: a history is a character. In my opinion it's just so. Every event in our centuries-old history left its own imptint on it, every event had a deep influence on the further development of the mankind. In that way the history has been forming for a long time like our character during our life.
What about the third phrase... It's very wise and rather difficult for me to understand it. That's why I won't comment it)
I'd like to comment the third quotation, 'cause I like it much and completely agree with it.
I think it means that we will never be able to know exactly what happened in the past, because history is what other people have told us. As so far as every person is judging from his own experience, the version of the history which we know is very subjective. What's more, there is a side of politics - leaders often approve of the version which is useful for them. Our country is a wonderful example of that. When there was the Soviet Union, our parents were taught one history at schools (about the House of the Romanovs, 'bad' Whites and 'good Reds, good Lenin, wise Stalin, etc.), then after the years of Perestroika everything changed. And we suddenly know that Lenin was not so good, Stalin was evil, and the Whites were victimes. We don't know anymore to whom we should believe, because there will always be as many versions of events as many people will group to agree on it.
P.S. By the way, the words of Winston Churchill in the title of the topic prove my idea. If a politician wins, his variant of history will be known to everybody.
-The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
History a science not objective, but subjective. Each person sees the same event differently Nobody knows the truths. For everyone there is his own truth, his own history.
-The character of mankind is its history. (Goethe)
Each person has its own character. And depending on his character he makes bad or good actions, which become history.
-History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
One people see the history from the one side, other people - from another side. And to come to a common opinion, historians come to an agreement with each other about sights at the separate periods, and the results of their work we can read in our textbooks.
- The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
I agree with this quotation because it's really true to our life. You see,very often other people's mistakes don't teach us. It's especially obvious when we talk about different generations. For the fact that previous generations pass on only their knowledge to us,but not their experience. It's so because the times are changing and with them all spheres of our life are changing too.
-The character of mankind is its history. (Goethe)
I also agree with this statement as it's not a secret for anybody that the events are forming our character, ideology and actions. And the history of mankind is just the representation of a succession of various events. Moreover I can even say that if we didn't know the story of some facts of mankind we just wouldn't be able to draw the picture of its character. It would seem to us as "tabula rasa"(Latin) which means "clean board".
-History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
I don't agree with this statement because I think there are as many opinions as many people. And I can't imagine the situation when the whole mankind agrees upon one version of history. There are always a lot of contradictions and disagreements among people when they discuss past events.
The statements are very true because:
1. The rulers seem not to study history as they do the same mistakes.
2. The national character directly depends on historical situation and location of the country.
3.People interprete history from different sides. No one knows how it was really
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