Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville on Past and Future

„When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.“

Alexis De TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville on the importance of the past for orientation in the future and human understanding.
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Alexis de Tocqueville was a 19th-century French statesman, historian, and political philosopher known for his analysis of democracy and political society in America.

This quote by Alexis de Tocqueville emphasizes the importance of the past in guiding and understanding the future.


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Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (1805–1859) was a French politician, lawyer, and writer. His seminal work "Democracy in America" analyzes the effects of democracy on the social structures of the United States. Tocqueville is considered one of the most influential political thinkers of the 19th century and a founder of modern democratic theory.

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"At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave." Oswald Spengler
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