Quotes About Past

Selective memory is not a bad thing when it leads children to forget arguments in the back seat of the car and to look forward to their next vacation. But it's a serious problem when it leads grown-ups to try to re-create a past that either never existed at all or whose seemingly attractive features were inextricably linked to injustices and restrictions on liberty that few Americans would tolerate today.

Maybe we feel such a strong kinship with pique assiette because it is the visual metaphor that best describes us; after all, we spend much of our lives hurling bits of the figurative and literal past into the world's landfill—and then regret it. We build our identities from that detritus of regret. Every relationship worth keeping sustains, at the very least, splintered glazes, hairline fractures, cracks. And aren't these flaws the prerequisites of intimacy?

One needs to be more vitally conscious of what is happening now. This is not to deny the reality of past and future. It is about embarking on a new relationship with the impermanence and temporality of life. Instead of hankering after the past and speculating about the future, one sees the present as the fruit of what has been and the germ of what will be.

I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.

As I was walking up the stairs to dad's old room, and I was looking at the photographs, I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories. That someone actually took the photograph, and the people in the photograph had just eaten lunch or something.

there was a time when these weren't memories.

I was looking at the old photographs, I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories. That someone actually took that photograph, and the people in the photograph had just eaten lunch or something.

But children are our future!' Yes, but does that not also mean that we are their past? I don't understand why we're helping them. You don't see union factory workers throwing a benefit for robots.

The future is a much bigger deal than the past

The service took place on one of those afternoons that occur only in the past.

Oh, to be in England, now that England's gone. This World Service, this little bakelite gateway into the world of Sidney Box, Charters and Caldecott, Mazawattee tea, Kennedy's Latin Primer and dark, glistening streets. An

For them, ten years ago, that's another lifetime. For you, it's yesterday.

We all become history at some point, right?

The reality is that the past is a very, very dark place for everybody' – Martin McGuinness, former IRA commander1

The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

The last chapter discussed why we see time go forward: why disorder increases and why we remember the past but not the future.

Quantum physics tells us that no matter how thorough our observation of the present, the (unobserved) past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. The universe, according to quantum physics, has no single past, or history. The fact that the past takes no definite form means that observations you make on a system in the present affect its past.

Given the state of a system at some time, the laws of nature determine the probabilities of various futures and pasts rather than determining the future and past with certainty.

The creation accounts of the past now seem less relevant and credible.

Fizica cuantic? ne spune c? oricât de am?nunÈ›ite ar fi observaÈ›iile noastre asupra prezentului, trecutul (neobservat), la fel ca viitorul, e nedefinit È™i exist? doar ca un spectru de posibilit??i. Conform fizicii cuantice, universul nu are doar un singur trecut sau o singur? istorie.

Even worse, if determinism breaks down, we can't be sure of our past history either. The history books and our memories could just be illusions. It is the past that tells us who we are. Without it, we lose our identity.

El pasado nos dice quién somos; sin él, perdemos nuestra identidad.

por completa que sea nuestra observación del presente, el pasado (no observado) y el futuro son indefinidos y sólo existen como un espectro de posibilidades.

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