"We learn from history as much as a……" — W G Sebald

"We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it."

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47 Quotes by W G Sebald

W G Sebald has 47 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those…
We all have appointments with the past.
At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.
I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling…
The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but…
To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many…
Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and…
The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past…
Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by…
And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. At times they come back from the ice more than…
And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.
Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one…

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More Experiment Quotes

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I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing. — Paul Auster
Humanity is a failed experiment, but I think I'm God and I'd like to start over. I don't want to… — Roseanne Barr
Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then… — Gary Bauer
We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to… — Glenn Beck
I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot… — Jeff Bezos
The true method of knowledge is experiment. — William Blake
I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival. — John Bolton
I look back at the looks I've had over the years. I'm proud of myself that I had the courage… — Christina Aguilera
I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like… — Sophia Bush
'Green Screen' was a total experiment. I'm glad we did it, but it was just tough on that network to… — Drew Carey
But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band. — Julian Casablancas
A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio… — John Jay Chapman

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