"History is the lie commonly agreed upon." What did Voltaire mean by this quote?
By this quote Voltaire meant that history is taught to us wrong since we are infants. Our teachers lied to us. We are taught lies to hide what really DID happen in the event. What we know as history, is not what actually had happened, it is what they wanted us to believe and perceive, as history is told in the WINNERS points of view. Since we are all taught the same lies since we are infants, then we all agree upon it, as we grew up believing these lies.
