Zitat des Tages über Nachwelt / Posterity:
As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.
Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
Forests are precious resources of the country and a wealth to be handed down to posterity.
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one's conversion, worthiness, and preparation.
The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure.
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.
Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?
I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.
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.
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.