Quotes About Past

He had a term for people like this: temporal provincials—people who were ignorant of the past, and proud of it.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

The Indians think these fossils are the bones of serpents, which is to say reptiles. We think they were reptiles, too. They think these creatures were gigantic. So do we. They think these gigantic reptiles lived in the distant past. So do we. They think the Great Spirit killed them. We say we don't know why they disappeared—but since we offer no explanation of our own, how can we be sure theirs is superstition?

He had a term for people like this: temporal provincials—people who were ignorant of the past, and proud of it. Temporal provincials were convinced that the present was the only time that mattered, and that anything that had occurred earlier could be safely ignored.

He talked about the future with such certainty, he might have been talking about the past.

If The Entrepreneur lives in the future, The Manager lives in the past. Where The Entrepreneur craves control, The Manager craves order. Where The Entrepreneur thrives on change, The Manager compulsively clings to the status quo.

Mi existencia es incomprensible y ridícula. Pero nunca estuvo a mi alcance poder elegir otra. Uno no deja de ser quien es. La libertad existe solo en el futuro. En el pasado ya no se puede encontrar. Nadie puede escoger otro pasado. Todo lo que sucede tenía que suceder como sucedió. A posteriori todo es inevitable. A priori nada. Lo único que importa es despertar del sueño.

No existe el instante, sólo el pasado o el futuro. Porque ahora, por ejemplo, este instante… cuando hablo de él ya ha pasado.

Chi non ha più un passato non ha neppure un avvenire.

Wer keine Vergangenheit mehr hat, der hat auch keine Zukunft.

Herkes çok sevinçliydi. Bunun asl?nda, vaktiyle k?s?tlad?klar? kendi öz zamanlar? olduÄŸunu ve ÅŸimdi onlara döndüÄŸünü asla bilemediler.

Enhanced longevity is essential for civilization. In every society in the past, the greatest association with societal and personal GDP increases is longevity—even much greater than schooling.

Do not get hung up on the past. Your life is made up of the present and future, and your past helps you navigate.

Their uselessness becomes their asset: they turn into totems and fragments of the lost worlds they came from.

The future throws a bridge toward the past, over the gaping abyss of capitalist non-culture.

He who sees the past as surprise-free is bound to have a future full of surprises.

What people remember about the past, they suggested, is likely to warp their judgment of the future. "We often decide that an outcome is extremely unlikely or impossible, because we are unable to imagine any chain of events that could cause it to occur. The defect, often, is in our imagination."¶ The

Historians imposed false order upon random events, too, probably without even realizing what they were doing. Amos had a phrase for this. "Creeping determinism," he called it—and jotted in his notes one of its many costs: "He who sees the past as surprise-free is bound to have a future full of surprises.

What Milken was saying was that the entire American credit-rating system was flawed. It focused on the past when it should have focused on the future, and it was burdened by a phony sense of prudence.

What people remember about the past, they suggested, is likely to warp their judgment of the future. "We often decide that an outcome is extremely unlikely or impossible, because we are unable to imagine any chain of events that could cause it to occur. The defect, often, is in our imagination.

There are many legends which say the past was perfect or that the future will be perfect. I have seen many pasts and many futures. None of them were perfect, my friend.

The process of experiencing is well described by Goethe when he says that our life is made up of our connections with the world about us, and that we must each spin our own web and sit at the centre to catch what we can.[21] The web itself is made up of past experiences, and each new connection with the world about us, in so far as it is fully known and understood, is an addition to that web, and so an added means of experiencing.

For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.

We find ourselves in a "collage" in which nothing has moved into the past and no wounds have healed with time, in which everything is present, open and bitter, in which everything coexists contiguously….