History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

Jennifer Donnelly
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History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past. You can see that it's a statement about the way we view history and ourselves, and that's significant. It's a statement about the way we view history and ourselves, and that's significant.

The phrase "the way we view history and ourselves" has two parts. In one part of the sentence, history is said to be a Rorschach test—a psychological tool for discovering something about ourselves. In the other part, what we see in history is said to tell us as much about ourselves as it does about the past.

Source: Revolution

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