" All right. Let’s try something else. I take it you see no point in history.’ He grunted. ‘If by that you mean that there is no progress, that even the notion of progress is a delusion, and that history is nothing more than a host of lessons nobody wants to pay attention to, then yes, there is no point. Not in writing it down, not in teaching it. "

― Steven Erikson , Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #8)