Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.
An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.
We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.
Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.
One faces the future with one's past.
You learn from your mistakes, or you go backward. I'm the kind of person who wants to move forward.
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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