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Single Idea 24095
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history
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Full Idea
The slowness of the events in the history of human beings is not suited to the human sense of time - and the subtlety and smallness of all growth defies human vision.
Gist of Idea
Our growth is too subtle to perceive, and long events are too slow for us to grasp
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82 [1882], 15[41])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Joyful Science, and 1881-82 fragments (v 6)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2023], p.488
A Reaction
The only way we can study history is by 'periods'. It is as if English history has its slate wiped clean in 1066, 1485, 1603 and 1689. All historians know that the reality of it all is totally beyond our grasp.
Related Idea
Idea 23873
Dividing history books into separate chapters is disastrous [Weil]
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[ideas about the study and teaching of history]:
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1866
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It is heresy to teach that history repeats every 36,000 years
[Anon (Par)]
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19593
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Persons are shaped by a life history; splendid persons are shaped by world history
[Novalis]
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23270
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We should all agree that there is reason in history
[Hegel]
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21987
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History is the progress of the consciousness of freedom
[Hegel]
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5279
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Human history must always be studied in relation to industry and exchange
[Marx/Engels]
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5286
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Most historians are trapped in the illusions of their own epoch
[Marx/Engels]
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5301
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The history of all existing society is the history of class struggles
[Marx/Engels]
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20261
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History does not concern what really happened, but supposed events, which have all the influence
[Nietzsche]
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24095
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Our growth is too subtle to perceive, and long events are too slow for us to grasp
[Nietzsche]
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24128
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After history following God, or a people, or an idea, we now see it in terms of animals
[Nietzsche]
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14883
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We should evaluate the past morally
[Nietzsche]
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23873
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Dividing history books into separate chapters is disastrous
[Weil]
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19605
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Despite endless suggestions, no one has found a goal for history
[Cioran]
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19637
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History is wonderfully devoid of meaning
[Cioran]
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15039
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History lacks 'meaning', but it can be analysed in terms of its struggles
[Foucault]
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7979
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The arrival of the news media brought history to an end
[Baudrillard]
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22819
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In the 18th century history came to be seen as progressive, rather than cyclical
[Hösle]
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20675
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The more you know about history, the harder it becomes to explain
[Harari]
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20676
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History teaches us that the present was not inevitable, and shows us the possibilities
[Harari]
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