Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. Years of teaching Wilhelm Meister (№ 433145)

When a person climbs a mountain, when he boldly walks forward and more and more horizons open up in front of him, then at some moments he wants to look back at the path he has traveled, he wants to see those milestones that once stood on his way, to measure the distance traveled by him, to glimpse the difficulties that stood in front of him and with which he had to fight. The same natural desire exists in humanity when, in its incessant movement forward, it reaches a certain stage of social development.