Abraham Lincoln Quotes

History repeats itself, first as history, then as farce.

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.

Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning.

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.

History repeats itself–the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

History goes in cycles.

He also knows that certain moments repeat themselves.

[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

History is the same thing over and over again.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Coincidence is logical.

Things work in cycles.

It's like deja-vu, all over again.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

In the fabric of human events, one thing leads to another. Every mistake is in a sense the product of all the mistakes that have gone before it, from which fact it derives a sort of cosmic forgiveness; and at the same time every mistake is in a sense the determinant of all the mistakes of the future, from which it derives a sort of cosmic unforgivableness.