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We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

Allan Bloom
Past, Alive, Needs
Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.239, Simon and Schuster
We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.