Memory tells us not what we choose, but what it pleases.
Quotes
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is necessary to our existence.
Arriving and leaving, hoping and remembering, that’s what life consists of.
What experience and history teach is this – that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
History is philosophy from examples.
Until lions have their own historians, history will always glorify the hunter
Make sure, when leaving the world/Not just that you were good, but leave/A good world.
Death conceals no mystery. It opens no door. It is the end of a human being. He is survived by the things he has given other human beings, by the things remaining in their memory.
To the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.