It is only through his present and his future that a man can atone for his past.[Det er bare gennem sin nutid og sin fremtid, at et menneske kan sone fortiden.]
In this great future, you can’t forget your past.
In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs exclusively to the past or to the future, but with that which is, both now and eternally — in short, with reason.
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
I believe the present matters – not the past! The past must go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms – a false perspective.
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
History-writing is a way of getting rid of the past.
For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment.
Even you are not rich enough to buy back your past. No man is.[to Sir Robert Chiltern]
Even people capable of living in the past don’t really know what the future holds.
Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.
Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
