Quotes About Past

In order to be what it 'is', a text is an essentially vitiated, impure, open, haunted thing, consisting of traces and traces of traces: no text is purely present, nor was there some purely present text in the past.

This wave of nostalgia which constantly reminds us that we can never go home again.

Well, I said, if the past don't get you, the fucking future sure will.

Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed But all the past still yet to come…

Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.

Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.

Design no longer leads back towards a divine origin, because once shifted into cybernetics it ceases to commensurate with the theopolitical ideal of the plan. Planning is the creationist symptom of underdesigned software circuits, associated with domination, tradition, and inhibition; with everything that shackles the future to the past. All planning is theopolitics, and theopolitics is cybernetics in a swamp. (298-9)

The pure reactionary is not a dreamer of abolished pasts, but a hunter of sacred shades on the eternal hills... The reactionary does not aspire to turn back, but rather to change direction. The past that he admires is not a goal but an exemplification of his dreams.

The pure reactionary is not a dreamer of abolished pasts, but a hunter of sacred shades on the eternal hills.

Peut-être les hommes apprendront-ils de leur passé, peut-être disparaitront-ils dans leur quête irraisonnée de pouvoir...

Training is anchored in the past. Education looks to the future.

You touch my soul, woman. You touch what I am, what I once was, and what I will be.

A person in despair likes to visit the past.

How does the personality come into being? By memory. By identifying the present with the past and projecting it into the future. Think of yourself as momentary, without past and future, and your personality dissolves.

An echo from the past when, innocent We looked upon the present with delight And doubted not the future would be kinder And never knew the loneliness of night.

It is the job of the human brain to assemble all the input of our world—sights, sounds, smells—into a coherent narrative. This is what memory is, a carefully calibrated story that we make up about our past.

In the world of old memories, there's no room for visitors

In the world of old memories, there's room for visitors

But when I looked into my aunt's eyes, I saw oceans and deserts. I saw a world not yet created, and worlds that had died long before I was born.

It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast between the standards of the past and the standards of the present. Some fulfil that duty on purpose, others by accident.

O dearest Warsaw of my youth, Which encompassed the whole of my world! If only for a moment and in the dark I wish to catch a glimpse Of the ashes and the flowers Of that good past.10

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

Ha a történelem igazán tudományos, akkor semmi olyat nem tud mondani, amire érdemes lenne odafigyelni. Ha pedig megpróbálja betölteni azt a szerepet, amelynek korábbi fontosságát köszönhette, vagyis értelmezi a múltat a jelen számára, ez esetben amit igazságként mutat be, a legjobb esetben is csak becslés, olykor pedig egyenesen tévedés.

Wir träumen von Reisen durch das Weltall: ist denn das Weltall nicht in uns? Die Tiefen unseres Geistes kennen wir nicht. – Nach Innen geht der geheimnisvolle Weg. In uns, oder nirgends ist die Ewigkeit mit ihren Welten, die Vergangenheit und Zukunft.