Agnes Repplier Quotes

There is nothing new under the sun.

All new news is old news happening to new people

Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

The more you read about history, the more you realize that there is nothing new under the sun.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun

What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

The more change, the more it's the same thing.

As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

There is nothing new under the sun.

All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.

I don't pretend to understand him, but I can enjoy him as a poet and comedian. I liked the idea of the eternal return. Sometimes I think that being on tour year after year is an eternal return; you play a certain club in Copenhagen and then ten years later you are back again, traveling the same roads year after year.

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

In the end, there is no end.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.