Quotes About Continuity

Sumeria was to Babylonia, and Babylonia to Assyria, what Crete was to Greece, and Greece to Rome:

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.

It's all now you see. Yesterday won't be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.

Il passato non è morto e sepolto. In realtà non è neppure passato

The past isn't dead. It isn't even past. --Wm. Faulkner

The past is never dead. It's not even past; it's always part of the present.

Wasn't it just one before?' the old porter said. 'Wasn't one enough then to tell us the same thing all them two thousand years ago:

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.

When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well. Surely

It had always felt to me as though Washington, D.C., to Boston was one span of stuff. You never really leave Springsteenland, you're just in this unbroken highway and strip-mall landscape.

History is a ribbon, always unfurling. History is a journey. And as we continue our journey, we think of those who traveled before us . . .

History is nothing more than a series of small yesterdays.

The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and one's own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

The demand for continuity has, over large tracts of science, proved itself to possess true prophetic power. We ought therefore ourselves sincerely to try every possible mode of conceiving the dawn of consciousness so that it may not appear equivalent to the irruption into the universe of a new nature, non-existent until then.

Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Yâdâh is not constrained to a particular time in history. Instead, the people of God will yâdâh for all eternity. Forever and ever.

the past that has not passed away

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

psychical life is neither unity nor multiplicity, that it transcends both the mechanical and the intellectual, mechanism and finalism having meaning only where there is "distinct multiplicity," "spatiality," and consequently assemblage of pre-existing parts: "real duration" signifies both undivided continuity and creation.

Nothing disappears completely ... In space, what came earlier continues to underpin what follows ... Pre-existing space underpins not only durable spatial arrangements, but also representational spaces and their attendant imagery and mythic narratives.

El presente sólo se forma del pasado, y lo que se encuentra en el efecto estaba ya en la causa.

Nothing that is can pause or stay; The moon will wax, the moon will wane, The mist and cloud will turn to rain, The rain to mist and cloud again, Tomorrow be today.