a society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.
greek proverb
Source: quotevadis.com
Only the individual can think, and thereby create new values for society — nay, even set up new moral standards to which the life of the community conforms. Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.
