Historical Recurrence Quotes

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.

I think history is just so cyclical.

No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

Everything in culture moves in a cyclical way.

I'm a storyteller; that is what I do. And I'm particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is how many, how many things you see repeated.

The more you read about history, the more you realize that there is nothing new under the sun.

...remember that what has once been done may be done again.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

History repeats itself and that's just how it goes.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

History is about loops and continuums.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

There is nothing new under the sun.

What always was must always be.

Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

Well, history always repeats itself, so there's probably a baby Shaq out there in a crib somewhere, sipping on a bottle, and when he gets old enough, he'll bring the post-up center back.