Accumulate

Are Mostly Memory

Arrive Before Their Explanation

Arrive Before They Are Understood

Become More Real With Age

Become Someone Else’s Problem

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Create Depth

Create Depth Over Time

Create Identity

Create Memory

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Only Make Sense Later

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Quietly Judge

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Recruit The Past

Reflect

Remain

Remember For Too Long

Remember For You

Remember Pressure

Repay Attention

Resist Compression

Reveal Themselves Slowly

Reward Curiosity

Reward Custodianship

Reward Depth

Reward Expansion

Reward Memory

Reward Preservation

Turn Space Into Place

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is a backwards teleology in that it is the identification of events that can be said to have led up to the present.

Hegel's history therefore is a backwards teleology history has a goal, an end, and this end is where we are now, so that what defines a past event as historical is that we are now able to identify it as one of the events that led up to the present. In other words it is the present that defines what is historical and what is not. But history is not simply this story. For Hegel the movement of history is not the flow of historical events, even where these have led up to the present. History occurs with the telling of a new story for the first time, history is the REwriting of history. This rewriting, and only this rewriting, is history in the true sense. Zizek, as he often does, puts it in the form of a joke

is a backwards teleology. What defines a past event as historical is that we are now able to identify it as one of the events that led up to the present. In other words it is the present that defines what is historical and what is not.

Hegel's history therefore is a backwards teleology history has a goal, an end, and this end is where we are now, so that what defines a past event as historical is that we are now able to identify it as one of the events that led up to the present. In other words it is the present that defines what is historical and what is not. But history is not simply this story.

is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.

History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error. Umberto Eco

is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

is a classically humanist discipline, deeply ethical and powerfully redemptive.

In other words, for Rorty as for White, history is a classically humanist discipline, deeply ethical and powerfully redemptive' (The Degradation of American HistoryBy David Harlan: 128)

is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times. Voltaire

is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Frank Herbert

is a field having neither a descriptive nor a normative value.

For Bachelard, history does not have a descriptive value, but a normative one... . . .

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