Krzysztof Penderecki Quotes

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

I like places that have history in the sense of - you feel responsible to it.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

You cannot not know history.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

With each passing decade, history becomes less real for us, less immediate and essential to our way of life, and so, like 'green' nature, more of a commodity or an advertising gimmick.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

It may not be art, but it is history.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

History is an instrument of the most genuine patriotic spirit

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

Americans are in vital need of the instruction that historians can provide.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

For me, clothing has always been connected to history. That's what draws me in.