"Die Devise der Geschichte überhaupt müßte lauten: Eadem, sed aliter. Hat Einer den Herodot gelesen, so hat er, in philosophicher Ublicht, schon genug Geschichte studirt."
— History

January 1, 1970

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The motto of history in general should run: Eadem, sed aliter [the same, but otherwise]. If we have read Herodotus, we have already studied enough history from a philosophical point of view. — Arthur Schopenhauer, Sämtliche Werke (F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1877), Vol. 3, p. 508 — The World as Will and Representation (E. F. J. Payne, Trans.; New York: Dover, 1966), Vol. II, p. 444 (Ch. XXXVIII "On History", in "Supplements to the Third Book")