Do you know that the meand is "History repets is self"???

Answer 1

Santayana said "Those who forget the past are condemned to relive it." Because people do not learn from the mistakes of the past, history repeats itself. We continue to fight wars and destroy the environment. Peace. C.

Answer 2

Karl Marx:
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second
as farce.

George Santayana:
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed
to repeat it.

Gerda Lerner:
What we do about history matters. The often repeated
saying that those who forget the lessons of history are
doomed to repeat them has a lot of truth in it.

http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_history.html

George Bernard Shaw:
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always
happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from
experience.

Clarence Darrow:
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong
with history.

Thomas Jefferson:
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare
as to be always valuable.

Max Beerbohm:
History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat
one another.

Oscar Wilde:
Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius
to write it.

Lamartine:
History teaches everything including the future.

Cicero:
Who does not know that the first law of historical
writing is the truth.

http://hnn.us/articles/1328.html

The saying 'History repeats itself' is a popular proverb:

http://encarta.msn.com/quote_1861509478/Proverbs_History_repeats_itself.html

The philosophy of this proverb is more deeply expressed
by Hegel.

Georg Hegel:
Somewhere that all great events and personalities in
world history reappear in one fashion or another.

The Puranas say that the cycle time for precession of
earth's axis is 26000 years, and that the weather on the
globe is affected by the precession. The Puranas also say
that 300 human years are equal to 1 divine year. Hence,
100 divine years are equal to 30,000 human years which
nearly tallies with the period of the earth's
precession if we understand that it was a rounded off
figure. About 1000 years ago, vineyards flourished and
wine was produced in England, suggesting warm and dry
summer seasons and the absence of cold spring seasons.
Sometime around 1200 A.D., the mild climate of Western
Europe began to show extreme variations. Very cold
winters were followed by relatively warm ones. The
English vineyards suffered during the cold spells.
Around 1500 A.D., the climate became moderated. The
very unit of 1 divine year given in the Puranas, which
equals 300 human years, may have been coined to
represent the duration of the Little Ice Age. However,
this may also have been an approximate figure.

Since the zodiac is divided into 12 parts, the 12th
part of the first sign also represents the first sign
in a mini-way according to the Hindu astrology. It also
says that the 12th part can be further divided into 12
parts in the same way to get the little division. We
can extend this concept to the Ice Age cycle. The Major
Ice age cycle will be 26000 years, the Minor Ice Age
cycle will be 2600 years, and the Little Ice Age cycle
will be 260 years.

These cycles of time affect the general attitude of the
intellectuals of the time. During the first half of the
cycle, intellectuals will be more interested in old
traditions. In the second half, they will not be happy
with what is written in the traditional texts, and
search for their answers in the contemporary writings.
Accordingly, most of the intellectual writings which
appeared 260 years ago were more concerned with the
texts that have come down to us since aeons.
Intellectuals of the recent years are giving less value
to such texts and are in-tune with writings of our
time.

Answer 3

yes, the quote is "those who forget the past, are condemned to repeat it."
It has nothing to do with "cycles" etc. What it REALLY implies are there are immutable lessons in how states, and international actors interact. It also may be construed that one should analyze the history of nations/cultures one expects to deal with. It's not really that profound of a statement. Actually Thucydides documented how states interact with other as far back as 400BC.
BTW, Russia WAS defeated in WW1, and Stalin offered a political deal to bail out of WW2 not once, but twice. Which shows how one can't just read the Cliff Notes/Stephen Ambrose version of history-one must study the details.

Answer 4

The same things keep happening over and over again, just with different people and different eras.

For example, empires always end up overextending.

My favorite example: don't ever invade Russia, especially from the West. They'll retreat inland and burn everything behind them so that you'll be stuck there, with no provisions and a harsh Russian winter upon you. They've done that at least three times in history, but people keep trying!!!

Answer 5

Human nature does not change, and thus people keep doing things without thinking in order to get their way. So we continue to have people who want more, and start wars in order to have or get more. The same idea can be seen in business, so it goes without saying that we will again have an Enron, and in politics, and even human relationships. All that changes is the names and the faces.

Answer 6

History Repeats Itself --
History tends to act in cycles. For instance, many of the things we are seeing today are similar to events we saw in the 1890s -- those in power giving corporations carte blanche, wars fought by cowboys for no reason.

Probably the most famous quote in regards to this is Karl Marx, who revises Hegel: "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, so to speak, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."

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Answer 7

Its all about learning, we are humans, humans make mistakes, the best way to fixx that mistake is to not do it again, but evidetally it will happen again by that person or someone else.