Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed...
Every nation and every age is standing on the shoulders of the past. Fragmentarium
Perhaps psychologically speaking, the verdict that they had given me would have been one that expresses deficiencies. How normal a man be whose mind lives in the past?
I search carefully the past with my old eyes, but I see nothing.
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.
The past is but the past of a beginning.
In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.
The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.