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===Popular aphorisms===
===Popular aphorisms===
Spanish philosopher [[George Santayana]] commented, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Many historians have echoed the line. The German philosopher of history [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]] remarked that "What history and experience teach us is this: that people and government never have learned anything from history or acted on principles deduced from it." Hegel was paraphrased by [[Winston Churchill]], who said "The one thing we have learned from history is that we don't learn from history." Ortega Y Gasset (1883-1955), Spanish philosopher said, "We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to escape from it." The aphorisms are entertaining and are often given out to popular audiences, but scholars pay no attention to them.
Spanish philosopher [[George Santayana]] commented, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Many historians have echoed the line. The German philosopher of history [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]] remarked that "What history and experience teach us is this: that people and government never have learned anything from history or acted on principles deduced from it." Hegel was paraphrased by [[Winston Churchill]], who said "The one thing we have learned from history is that we don't learn from history." Ortega Y Gasset (1883-1955), Spanish philosopher said, "We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to escape from it." The aphorisms are entertaining and are often given out to popular audiences, but scholars pay no attention to them.
== Historical revisionism and historical negationism ==
[[Historical revisionism]] involves either the illegitimate distortion of the historical record or a careful and more objective re-examination of the historical data about a historical event or events.
Those who engage in denialism often pose as historical revisionists in order to cloak their motivations. A term for engaging in denialism when reporting false histories is the term historical negationism. For example, [[Holocaust]] deniers engage in historical negationism.
=== Atheism and illegitimate historical revisionism ===
Atheists commonly engage in historical revisionism in order to illegitimately distort the historical record (see: [[Atheism and historical revisionism]]).
== See also ==
== See also ==
*[[Biography]]
*[[Biography]]
*[[Literature]]
*[[Literature]]
*[[History of painting]]
*[[History of painting]]
*[[Historical Painting]]
*[[Historical Painting]]