Futility Quote by Albert Camus

“The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity…

— Frank Kermode

“Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors…

— Charles MacKay

“the past was a worthless human ability that had evolved for the sole purpose of reminding mortals of their mistakes.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.…

— ralph waldo emerson

“It took us a while to discover that we do effectively think, but that we more readily narrate backward in order to give ourselves…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Were a man to be totally deprived of memory, he would be incapable of forming any just opinion; everything about him would seem a…

— Thomas Paine

“Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we…

— Danail Hristov

“Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the…

— George Orwell

“The cost of contemplating history is often an uneasy conscience.”

— Richard Kluger

“We preferred to imagine ourselves on the right side of things, including history. We preferred to stand side by side, thinking despising thoughts about…

— Madeline Ffitch

“I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their…

— Na'ama Yehuda

“When people choose between talk about the past and talk about the future, a pragmatic person will always opt for the future and forget…

— Robert Greene