The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough.
When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame.
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.