We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much...

We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.
G.K. Chesterton

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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right: It is the ideal American who is all wrong.
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It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.
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We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have. G.K. Chesterton

We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.
G.K. Chesterton