Quotes About Legacy

in the case of a Gascon seigneur of the 14th century who left 100 livres to "those whom I deflowered, if they can be found.

William III died childless in 1702, in a fall when his horse stumbled over a molehill, an obstacle that seems as if it should have some philosophical significance but, as far as can be seen, does not.

One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral.

All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.

The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip, and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war.

As there would be no more inheritance, there would be no more greed. Peter Kropotkin

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature is dumb, science is crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.

Philosophy will go on being taught in the world and all over the world. Only a few, perhaps, will reach the deeps of it in this life; but a seed sown to-day may bear fruit long hence.

My moments are numbered; and if I would expose him with my dying sigh, I must not sentimentalize over my own decay.

This is something an ordinary man can never know. You will enter the House of Dreams, Juanito, where you will live forever. Your mother and father and sisters and brothers, your grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, all you will greet in their dreams. And only you, among them, will be safe.

He told me, in case I shared the common notion that the old deserved death, it was hardly ever true. He had seen and heard a man recite verbatim five Damon Runyan stories, with beautiful gestures, and be cold dead in thirty minutes.

No matter what his birth certificate said or didn't say, he was Billy Dent's son.

If in one's life a man can but find one truth, and pass it on to those who come after him, he has done well. But

I was born for better things.

And he said, "It is not that Eleazar knows more Torah than I do but that he is descended from greater men than I am. Happy is the person whose ancestors have gained merit for him. Happy is the person who has a 'peg' on which to hang.

I hope you will leave the world a better place than you found it."     —Jane Yolen

We are all engaged in looting the past. (Only the greatest geniuses manage to steal from the future.)

God is the one who always remembers those whom history has forgotten.

I found myself compelled to fight back from my eyes the tears, and quanch my heart trobling to my throat to not weep before him. But Sacco's name will live in the hearts of the people when your name, your laws, institutions and your false god are but a dim rememoring of a cursed past in which man was wolf to the man.

Upon the roadway of my life, A guide-board I will leave of love, So those who follow in my steps May guided be to hills above.

To resurrect former times and to relive them would end the fulfilment of visions and growth in the new order. "Perhaps

Maxwell was not only one of the most brilliant and influential scientists who ever lived but an altogether fine and engaging man. And

Our entire linear and accumulative culture collapses if we cannot stockpile the past in plain view.