Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Past
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
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The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.
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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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Time flies, and what is past is done.
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Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
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Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.
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The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.
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No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
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It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.
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