Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

You can't build a future if you don't have a past.

I think that our comfort is in our history.

In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

You can't run from your roots.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

I feel like our history and our roots make us who we are.

You can't really run from your roots.

I always had my roots in the past.

It's good to know where you've come from.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

You always want to know what happened before you. It's a human instinct to know where you came from and what preceded you.

You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

History is not everything, but it is the starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are, but more importantly, what they must be.