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History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies (The Past Quotes)
I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed.about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past (The Past Quotes)
History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form (The Past Quotes)
The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present (The Past Quotes)
We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody’s pocket... We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us (The Past Quotes)
Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present (The Past Quotes)
History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We cannot join in the rewriting of history to make it conform to our comfort and convenience (The Past Quotes)
What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present (The Past Quotes)
The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were alive in it. On the other hand, it has the power to harm us (The Past Quotes)
The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn’t done any new thinking in the past ten years (The Past Quotes)
Love is beyond description; but not beyond demonstrating. Love is beyond the mind because it is always new. Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old. So the mind is a modifier, a reactor; a renovator, but it cannot create the new (The Past Quotes)
Once again a new world view is arising... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution. It is the idea of conscious evolution (The Past Quotes)
Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future (The Past Quotes)
You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop (The Past Quotes)
If we seek the real source of the dance, if we go to nature, we find that the dance of the future is the dance of the past, the dance of eternity, and has been and always will be the same... The movement of waves, of winds, of the earth is ever the same lasting harmony (The Past Quotes)
In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive significant and relevant human qualities in the present and then pass them on to future generations (The Past Quotes)
Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires... It is a necessary resultant of attachment to the past or to the anticipated future, and it always persists in some form or other until the mind is completely detached from everything (The Past Quotes)
Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return (The Past Quotes)
A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of it (The Past Quotes)
The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don’t have any consideration for the past... Just because something is old, you don’t just rip it down. You can renovate it instead of ripping it down and building something new (The Past Quotes)
The bandstand is an incredible space. It is really a sacred space. One of the things that is really sacred about it is that you have no opportunity to think about the future, or the past (The Past Quotes)
Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and security, material comfort and knowledge that were unknown to the elites of the wealthiest and most powerful societies in earlier times (The Past Quotes)
Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law (The Past Quotes)
It is with our entire past... that we desire, will and act... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. The circumstances may still be the same, but they will act no longer on the same person... that is why our duration is irreversible (The Past Quotes)
The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best be cleared up by devoting ourselves to the study of the actual state of the living world, and to those monuments of the past in which the relics of the animate creation of former ages are best preserved and least mutilated by the hand of time (The Past Quotes)
Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth (The Past Quotes)
We have to go for what we think we’re fully capable of, not limit ourselves by what we’ve been in the past (The Past Quotes)
It’s been a long blessed career. I’ve been riddled with injuries the past two and a half years and haven’t been able to quite compete as I’m accustomed to. At this point, I just really want to enjoy it and put it all on the line when I’m out there (The Past Quotes)
I can’t really do anything about the past and all I can do is just embrace the future and try to make the most of the present. So I’m really trying to do that and doing my best every day (The Past Quotes)
I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck (The Past Quotes)