His Own Past Quotes
- Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and… — Geoffrey Barraclough
- You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as… — Swami Vivekananda
- Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.… — Walter Benjamin
- Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting… — Philip Rieff
- Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past. — Francis Herbert Hedge