We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.


"The Idolatry of Politics", U.S. Jefferson Lecture speech (1986)

Leszek Kołakowski Quotes

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.