The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

A man who can’t forget the past is a man who cannot plan for the future.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses his past and is dead for the future.

...because he came here on the wrong day, because he was born in the wrong time, because he had been born, it was all wrong from the very beginning, he should have known, should have sensed, that today was not the day to begin anything, nor was tomorrow, there were no days before him now, as there had never even been any, just as there was not and never would be a day...

Unable to see further than tomorrow.

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

He who doesn't prize his past, ill-prepares his future.

"A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life."