Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.
I think history is just so cyclical.
All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.
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.
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
The more you read about history, the more you realize that there is nothing new under the sun.
History never repeats itself in the same way.
History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.
They say history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome.
Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
He also knows that certain moments repeat themselves.
Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning.
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.
The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.
History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.
What happens on that corner happens on every corner.
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
If a thing happens once, it can happen again. If any human being has ever realised perfection, we too can do so. If we cannot become perfect here and now, we never can in any state or heaven or condition we may imagine.
History is the same thing over and over again.
Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
The ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step.
If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?
