Ludwig von Mises Quotes

It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.

Even God cannot change the past.

The past can never be erased. It is always going to be there.

Even the Gods cannot change the past.

There is no past that we can bring back to us by the longing for it.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember.

It's unfortunate nine years were in between - you can't take that time back; you can't undo it.

In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.

What's done can't be undone.

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

And that’s the way it is

Yes, once—many, many years ago. I thought I had made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I ha been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought I was wrong.

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

No one can defy fate.

We have to accept the world as it is, not as we'd have it to be.

I believe there were things I probably should have done differently. But I'm not going to spend a lot of time crying over spilt milk.