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> [We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leszek-kolakowski/we-learn-history-not-in-order-to-know-how-to-behave-or-how-to-succeed/)

[Leszek Kolakowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leszek-kolakowski/)

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## More by Leszek Kolakowski

> [“Religion is man's way of accepting life as an inevitable defeat. That it is not an inevitable defeat is a claim that cannot be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leszek-kolakowski/religion-is-man-s-way-of-accepting-life-as-an-inevitable-defeat-that/)

[Leszek Kolakowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leszek-kolakowski/)

> [For any given doctrine that one wants to believe, there is never a shortage of arguments by which to support it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leszek-kolakowski/for-any-given-doctrine-that-one-wants-to-believe-there-is-never-a/)

[Leszek Kolakowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leszek-kolakowski/)

> [“...we really have no right to reproach God for having created the world. For Him it was the only possible way of escaping from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leszek-kolakowski/we-really-have-no-right-to-reproach-god-for-having-created-the-world/)

[Leszek Kolakowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leszek-kolakowski/)

> [We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leszek-kolakowski/we-were-happy-a-hundred-years-ago-we-knew-that-there-were-exploiters/)

[Leszek Kolakowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leszek-kolakowski/)

> [A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leszek-kolakowski/a-modern-philosopher-who-has-never-once-suspected-himself-of-being-a/)

[Leszek Kolakowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leszek-kolakowski/)

> [No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leszek-kolakowski/no-victory-is-irreversible-no-defeat-is-definitive-that-is-what-makes/)

[Leszek Kolakowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leszek-kolakowski/)

> [We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leszek-kolakowski/we-learn-history-not-in-order-to-know-how-to-behave-or-how-to-succeed/)

[Leszek Kolakowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leszek-kolakowski/)

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