Victor Hugo Quotes About Past
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Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.
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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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