As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
Henry David Thoreau
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
More quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
- I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
- A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
- The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.