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Quotes about the past
past
Nor is it right to say there are three times: past, present and future. Perhaps it would be more correct to say: there are three times: a present of things past, a present of things present, a present of things future.”
Augustine of Hippo
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Confessions
past
present
time
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
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Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims
future
past
philosophy
present
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
future
past
The future influences the present just as much as the past.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
future
past
present
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.”
Jean de La Bruyere
future
past
present
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
Gautama Buddha
body
future
health
mind
past
present
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.”
Henri Bergson
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Creative Evolution
past
present
The time present of things past is memory; the time present of things present is direct experience; the time present of things future is expectation.”
Augustine of Hippo
-
Confessions
past
present
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
Oscar Wilde
future
past
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
René Descartes
book
past
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.”
Victor Hugo
future
History
past
Everything that was is no longer; everything that will be is not yet. Look no further for the secret of our ills.”
Alfred de Musset
future
past
to be
Ah, who brings the happy moments,
Glorious days of sweet first love;
Who can bring back a single hour
Of that blessed time again.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
happiness
love
past
It is pleasant to think of labours that are past.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
past
work
If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.”
Alan Watts
future
past
present
to live
The mysterious way leads inwards. Eternity with its worlds — the past and future — is in ourselves or nowhere.”
Novalis
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Pollen
eternity
future
past
way
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.”
André Breton
death
future
life
past
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
past
present
Study the past, if you would divine the future.”
Confucius
future
past
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.”
Victor Hugo
past
present
time
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
Alan Watts
future
illusion
past
present
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
George Bernard Shaw
future
past
responsibility
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.”
Anna Freud
future
past
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.”
Marcus Aurelius
future
past
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
future
past
philosophy
present
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”
Honore de Balzac
future
happiness
past
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.”
Hannah Arendt
past
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
Albert Einstein
future
illusion
past
present
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