History is the science of things which are not repeated. – Paul Valery
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery
History is the science of things which are not repeated. – Paul Valery
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. – Paul Valery
The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present. – David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country