"What man is, only his history tells. In vain others put the past behind them in order to begin life anew. They cannot shake off the gods of the past because they become haunting ghosts. The melody of our life is conditioned by the accompanying voices of the past. Only by surrendering to the great objective forces which history has engendered can man liberate himself from the pain of the moment and from ephemeral joy. Neither subjective caprice nor egotistic pleasure can reconcile man with life. Only surrender of his sovereign personality to the course of the world can affect this reconciliation."
-Wilhelm Dilthey
Mar 11, 2010
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