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I'm a little confused by this part of the quote: > 'Although history never repeats itself, we are now experiencing a strong return of little nations...` I've
by lelandbatey 13y ago
I'm a little confused by this part of the quote:
> 'Although history never repeats itself, we are now experiencing a strong return of little nations...`
I've never heard the phrase "history never repeats itself", I've only ever heard "history repeats itself."
Is this a saying that comes out of Italy, or am I just grossly uninformed?
- brownbat 13y agoLet's see... https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=history+never+repeats+itself%2C+history+repeats+itself&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=history+never+... Looks like "history repeats itself" is clearly the more frequent formulation.
- arg01 13y agoSome of the common quotes: "History never repeats itself, but it rhymes" -Mark Twain Split enz also has a popular song with "History never repeats. I tell myself before I go to sleep". The other quote you're your probably thinking of "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" -George Santayana So all in all I'd say you're right on the thrust of the generally popular quotes but not necessarily on their wording.