Past

"History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about."

"Don't forget your history nor your destiny."

"When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."

"Every past has a way out: find it."

"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different."

"Study the past if you would define the future."

"Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

"For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before."

"A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory."

"Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again."

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."