If he's chasing the full restoration of his legacy, he's chasing something that he really can't get.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
I actually don't hope for a legacy. I think that it impedes your ability to make the hard decisions if you sit around saying, 'How will this affect my legacy?'
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.
My legacy is almost like a personal challenge to go as far as I can go.
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.