Quotes About Posterity

He wrote them in two tables of stone, that they might be preserved from corruption, and might be transmitted pure and entire to posterity, for whose use they were intended, as well as for the present generation. These

There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them.

Historical impulse. "The desire to see things as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity." Political

Penwoman to Posterity.

Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

Es gibt keine andere Unsterblichkeit als die Erinnerung, die man im Geiste der Menschen zurücklässt.

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. ~Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood (introduction), 1982

But the lie often repeated becomes history, and the snake-oil pitchman's forgery of yore becomes the inspirational gospel of a posterity that sees itself as worldly and wise.

To write for posterity* is not to worry whether they will read us tomorrow. It is to aspire to a certain quality of writing. Even when no one reads us. *Posterity is not the whole of future generations. It is a small group of men with taste, a proper upbringing, and erudition, in each generation.

Posterity is not going to understand what an achievement mere good sense is in this insane century.

Whereas contemporaries read only the optimist with enthusiasm, posterity rereads the pessimist with admiration.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

Perhaps the world, incubating over Asiatic wisdom and Western science, will one day hatch out a civilization that will shame antiquity, deride modernity and amaze posterity.

I am here because of those who came before. And I will go on because of those who come after.

Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.

Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.