“Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered.But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to repeat it.”
“Culture is what we choose to repeat.”
“We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.”
“Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way.”
“Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.”
“He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.”