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"Absorption with the past is …" (QOD)

I was reading Paul Tillich’s Theology of Culture again today and was struck by this quote, for which he is drawing on Heidegger who in turn was drawing on Nietzsche:

Mere historical knowledge is not man’s real role as an historical being. Absorption in the past is an estrangement from our task as the makers of history.