Statements about the past day. Quotes about the past
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When one door of happiness closes, another usually opens immediately, but sometimes we don’t notice it, staring at the closed door.
"Don't worry about what you can't change..."
No person can become more alien than the one you loved in the past E.M. Remarque
You can’t escape fate, and if you left, that means it’s not fate...
Leave the past to those who remain in it...
Everyone says that you can't order your heart,
But know that I will command my heart!
The hardest thing to refuse and forget is not the person himself, but the dream that he gave, and you believed in it.
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
“Don’t think about the past, live in the present. After all, if you always look back, you may not see the hole ahead and fall into it..”.
“The pursuit of joy is more important than the need to suffer.”
You can’t get rid of memories until you seriously want it, until you decide for yourself that enough is enough. My mother says in this case: “don’t drink sawdust.” and on the radio they once said: “If you want to forget your old love, come up with a new one”
If you often remember the past, you can lose the future
Don't look to the past with longing. It won't come back. Use the present wisely. It's yours. Go forward towards the uncertain future, without fear and with a courageous heart.
When giving - do it easily, when losing - do it easily, when saying goodbye - do it easily. When giving, losing, saying goodbye, do not be sad about the future, but thank the past.
The past can be too heavy to carry around with you everywhere. Sometimes it is worth forgetting about it for the sake of the future.
We cling to our past because we don't trust the future.
Memories are what makes us grow old. The secret of eternal youth is the ability to forget.
Don't regret the past! It didn’t spare you! ((
The future worries us, but the past holds us back. This is why the present eludes us.
“It’s good where we are not: in the past we are no longer there,
and it looks beautiful"
The strongest hatred is the product of the strongest love.
a man should leave as gracefully as he came...forever....
Your lips bleed, your soul shatters, only your gaze burns in your memory. Yes, I left you, but, God, how my soul hurts...
Pushkin also said that when a cat walked to the left, it always told fairy tales.
A man is only interesting until he becomes intrusive.
My affection was nourished by time and said nothing about the merits of the one to whom it belonged...
A guy will never forget a girl who made him cry, and a girl will always remember a guy who made her laugh...
Sometimes it's good to lose everything to realize what you're really missing.....
You can't truly regret what happened. You can only regret what you didn't do...
A look into the past is a stab in the heart...
without the past there is no future.
destroy or forget the most terrible crime of the past
Elena Khanina:
...the whole beauty of the past is that it is the past. O. Wilde
The past can always be erased by repentance, oblivion or renunciation, but the future is inevitable O. Wilde
The present never satisfies us, the future is unreliable, the past is irrevocable. Schopenhauer
To go into the future, you need to get rid of the past. Forrest Gump
The past is like a broken mirror. Trying to put the pieces back together can cause you to cut yourself.
The past is a gaping hole. You try to escape from it, but the harder you run, the deeper and scarier it becomes behind you, and you feel its edges licking your heels. The only chance is to turn around and face it bravely. But this is the same as looking into the grave of your love. Or how to kiss the barrel of a gun loaded and ready to smash your head into pieces.
Don't regret the past... it didn't spare you!
Never regret anything afterward,
If what happened cannot be changed.
Like a note from the past, I crumpled up my sadness,
Break the fragile thread with this past...
* I will never regret the present because it will soon become the past.
*What happened yesterday was yesterday, and today is a new day and a new life.
Don't try to bring back the past. You cannot return what already belongs to you.
The heart of the future lives
The present is sad
Everything is instant, everything will pass,
Whatever happens will be nice
You need to know the past not because it has passed, but because, when leaving, it was not able to remove its consequences...
A distinctive characteristic of a person is the desire to start everything without fail.
at first...
Why, even having gained the present, do we still try to return to the past? And even having found today's happiness, we try to reach the happiness of yesterday, each time returning to the days gone by...
You can treat the past well or badly, but regret is stupid. Regret is not constructive; nothing useful can be created from a feeling of regret. We need to be grateful to the past because it gives us certain experiences from which we learn and draw conclusions. Even if the experience is very bitter and difficult, you still learn a lesson from it, become smarter, and for this I thank him very much.
Memory warms a person from the inside, and, at the same time, tears him apart (Haruki Murakami “Kafka on the Beach”)
The past has smell, taste and color,
The desire to teach, influence and mean,
And only one thing, unfortunately, is missing -
Opportunities to reinvent yourself.
The past cannot be returned. At least restore faith in the future! Boris Krutier
The past stored in memory is part of the present. Tadeusz Kotarbiński
Remembering the past, you remember life...
Remember what happened and draw conclusions!
What has passed will never return... Only in memory remains...
Thank you for making me happy with you!
But now it's in the past...
You always need to know when the next stage of your life ends. A circle closes, a door closes, a chapter ends - it doesn’t matter what you call it, it’s important to leave in the past what already belongs to the past.
Time heals everything, whether you like it or not.
time takes everything away, leaving only darkness in the end...
sometimes in this darkness we meet others, and sometimes we lose them there again
Those who look back on their past do not deserve the future. O. Wilde.
No matter what happens to us, the root cause can always be found in our past actions. – Haruki Murakami.
If you want the past to set you free, let it go first.
Looking for standards in the past is a futile endeavor. The only thing worse can be trying to find them in the system. – Oswald Spengler
We divide the past into centuries in our minds, and find no place for anything next to them. – Elias Canetti.
Nothing disappears forever in the past, but everything is preserved. – Viktor Frankl.
Digging into the past, you can find a lot of interesting things in the present. - Valentin Domil.
The first criterion of depravity is disrespect for ancestors. - Alexander Pushkin.
What has already happened cannot be experienced again. But what needs to happen has not happened yet. - Nagarjuna.
It is easier to discredit the past than to correct it. – Livia Titus.
Living in the past is like living while trying to get closer to perfection. - Wilhelm Windelband.
What has passed, but remains in our memory, is the present. – Tadeusz Kotarbiński
Letters from the past can change the way we think about the past. Don't let them do this. – Elias Canetti.
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The archaic world was much less compact than the world that surrounds us, and was perceived as less compact. – Paul Karl Feyerabend
Those who lived before us accomplished a lot, but completed nothing. – Seneca
The past is ghostly because it no longer exists, and the future is ghostly because it doesn’t exist yet.
Every day there is a student of yesterday. – Publilius Syrus
When memories fade in our hearts, death makes them bloom again in its hands. – Fedor Ivanovich Tyutchev
The past cannot be returned. At least restore faith in the future! – Boris Krutier
The past cannot simply be cut down with a sweeping blow of an axe. We need to figure out what in the old is dead and belongs to the grave and what is still alive and worthy of life. – Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin
Everything good and [useful] that has come down to us from antiquity must be followed, but new useful and good things must also be created. – Mo Tzu Mo Di
Only when dealing with a frankly fictitious tale about past events does a person agree to accept responsibility for them and consider past events to be his past. – Hannah Arendt
No solution to our problems can be found ready-made in the heritage of the ancients. – Jacques Maritain
We question and interrogate the past so that it can explain our present and give us hints about our future. – Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
The legend is fresh, but hard to believe. – Alexander Sergeevich Griboyedov
You won’t go anywhere in the carriage of the past... – Maxim Gorky
About the past we know only the versions of the winners. – Bernard Werber “Encyclopedia of relative and absolute knowledge”
Does the sun shine on me today so that I can think about yesterday? – Johann Friedrich Schiller
The past is intended to serve us, but we can take possession of it only if it is subordinated to the present. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any renunciation of the past, any sweeping denial of it is evil and delusion. – Semyon Ludwigovich Frank
Don’t regret the past... It didn’t regret you.
It’s good where we are not: in the past we are no longer there, and it seems beautiful. – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Yesterday is today's teacher. – Publilius Syrus
The past can always be erased by repentance, oblivion or renunciation, but the future is inevitable.
Everything that has passed is past. – Horace Quintus Horace Flaccus
This often happens: past happiness seems to be within easy reach, but you still can’t reach it.
What has died as reality is alive as edification. – Victor Marie Hugo
The future, being everything, is perceived as nothing; the past, being nothing, is perceived by everything! – Charles Lamb
Blessed is he who honors his ancestors with a pure heart. – Johann Wolfgang Goethe
There is limited space for the past in the present.
The Roman Empire was a bare, hollowed-out trunk. – Johan Huizinga
People are never satisfied with the present and, from experience, having little hope for the future, decorate the irrevocable past with all the colors of their imagination. – Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
The past must be accepted as it is. It is not the blows that are hitting us now that matter, but those that we have suffered. – Stephen King
The best prophet of the future is the past. – D. Sherman
There were us Trojans, there was Ilion.
Without knowing the past, it is impossible to understand the true meaning of the present and the goals of the future. – Maxim Gorky
A person is forever chained to the past: no matter how far and fast he runs, the chain runs with him. – Friedrich Nietzsche
When we remember, we later treat many of the things that once worried us with complete indifference. – Wilhelm Windelband
A person is forever chained to the past: no matter how far and fast he runs, the chain runs with him. But the past, unfortunately, is a constant. What was, that is. Forever.
There is too much of the past in us. We are making too little progress. – Elias Canetti
Some detail, the most insignificant and long-standing, stands out like a peak, while entire layers of my past settle without a trace. – Claude Lévi-Strauss
Nothing changes as quickly as the past. – Dmitry Pashkov
Remember the past. Think about the future. Live in the present.
It is not only possible, but also necessary to be proud of the glory of your ancestors; not to respect it is shameful cowardice. – Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
The past is reality remembered by the present. – Lev Karsavin
The past is known in the present, from the present, through the present. – Lev Karsavin
A pleasant memory of the hardships of the past. – Virgil Maro Publius
The past day is always better than the present day. – Ovid
One mirror is more important than a whole gallery of ancestors. – Wolfgang Menzel
No one can return the past. We must go, continue our path, and it is useless to look back... - Romain Rolland
A person without a past can deprive one of the future.
Why keep going back to the past? It’s enough that, against our will, we have to devote so much time to him.
The past is characterized by immobility and constancy. It does not change; it bears the stamp of eternity, like an oil painting or a statue made of bronze or marble.
Past time never returns.
We assume that if it is written, it means it happened. – Benedetto Croce
There are different dead, some from the depths of millennia that have been experienced and now powerfully determine the direction of our modern best. – Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin
Let man use the past centuries as the material on which the future grows - Jean Marie Guyot
What has passed is no more. – Cicero Marcus Tullius
The present is a consequence of the past, and therefore constantly turn your gaze to your backside, which will save you from significant mistakes. – Kozma Prutkov
The point is not about mentally drawing a big demarcation line between the past and the future, but about realizing the thoughts of the past. – Karl Marx
We must know the inventions of our ancestors. – Cicero
Obsession with the past is a plausible and therefore very popular excuse to tie yourself hand and foot. – Alfred Adler
Is there a person who would not be impressed by antiquity, attested and certified by so many glorious monuments? – Cicero Marcus Tullius
Even where life changes rapidly and dramatically, as, for example, in revolutionary eras, with all visible transformations much more of the old is preserved than is usually believed, and this old dominates, uniting with the new into a new unity. – Hans Georg Gadamer
The destruction of statues is the negation of hierarchies that are no longer recognized. – Elias Canetti
With all the vicissitudes of fate, the greatest misfortune is to be happy in the past. – Boethius
Sooner or later a moment comes when only the past is ahead and the future is behind. – Leszek Kumor
The archive is first and foremost the law of what can be said. – Paul Michel Foucault
Without climbing a high mountain, you will not know the height of the sky. Without looking into a deep gorge in the mountains, you will not know the thickness of the earth. Without hearing the behests of your ancestors, you will not recognize the greatness of learning. – Xiongzi
The best way to bring back the past is to remember everything you have experienced. – Benjamin Franklin “Autobiography”
What happened recently, is it older or younger? – Gabriel Honoré Marcel
Past generations left us not so much ready-made solutions to problems, but rather the questions themselves. – Seneca
The past blocks the way for the future. – Robert Walser
We know that at least we are human beings; but half of our inspiration from our heroes is lost when we forget that they were human beings. – Alfred North Whitehead
We question and interrogate the past so that it can explain our present and give us hints about our future.
To go into the future, you need to get rid of the past.
Wise people say that it is good and honorable to follow in the footsteps of our ancestors, if, of course, they followed the straight path. – Pliny the Younger
Antiquity is admiring the vault of heaven. – Alexander Fedorovich Losev
There is no universal way back. There is only movement forward, although unfamiliar depths and distances are spinning our heads, although the near future yawns before us, like an abyss in the fog. Although there is no return to the past, the past can give us an instructive lesson and serve as a guide. – Johan Huizinga
The past had a magical power over them. Or did they not understand that a person does not need the past to be happy? – John Cheever “Children”
Give me back my past, it had such a wonderful future!
There is no need to cling to vain regrets about the past and mourn over the changes that plague us, for change is the basis of life. – Anatole France
Dead history is reborn, the past becomes present if life itself demands it. – Benedetto Croce
Memories are magical clothes that do not wear out from use. – Robert Louis Stevenson
We cannot accept the former unchanged, because we ourselves have become different. – Wilhelm Windelband
In ancient times, proximity to a high road during the era of Roman rule was not an advantage, but a great misfortune: these were not trade roads, but military roads. – Max Weber
~*Queen of Inspiration*~
When one door of happiness closes, another usually opens immediately, but sometimes we don’t notice it, staring at the closed door.
"Don't worry about what you can't change..."
No person can become more alien than the one you loved in the past E.M. Remarque
You can’t escape fate, and if you left, that means it’s not fate...
Leave the past to those who remain in it...
Everyone says that you can't order your heart,
But know that I will command my heart!
The hardest thing to refuse and forget is not the person himself, but the dream that he gave, and you believed in it.
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
“Don’t think about the past, live in the present. After all, if you always look back, you may not see the hole ahead and fall into it..”.
“The pursuit of joy is more important than the need to suffer.”
You can’t get rid of memories until you seriously want it, until you decide for yourself that enough is enough. My mother says in this case: “don’t drink sawdust.” and on the radio they once said: “If you want to forget your old love, come up with a new one”
If you often remember the past, you can lose the future
Don't look to the past with longing. It won't come back. Use the present wisely. It's yours. Go forward towards the uncertain future, without fear and with a courageous heart.
When giving - do it easily, when losing - do it easily, when saying goodbye - do it easily. When giving, losing, saying goodbye, do not be sad about the future, but thank the past.
The past can be too heavy to carry around with you everywhere. Sometimes it is worth forgetting about it for the sake of the future.
We cling to our past because we don't trust the future.
Memories are what makes us grow old. The secret of eternal youth is the ability to forget.
Don't regret the past! It didn’t spare you! ((
The future worries us, but the past holds us back. This is why the present eludes us.
“It’s good where we are not: in the past we are no longer there,
and it looks beautiful"
The strongest hatred is the product of the strongest love.
a man should leave as gracefully as he came...forever....
Your lips bleed, your soul shatters, only your gaze burns in your memory. Yes, I left you, but, God, how my soul hurts...
Pushkin also said that when a cat walked to the left, it always told fairy tales.
A man is only interesting until he becomes intrusive.
My affection was nourished by time and said nothing about the merits of the one to whom it belonged...
A guy will never forget a girl who made him cry, and a girl will always remember a guy who made her laugh...
Sometimes it's good to lose everything to realize what you're really missing.....
You can't truly regret what happened. You can only regret what you didn't do...
A look into the past is a stab in the heart...
without the past there is no future.
destroy or forget the most terrible crime of the past
Elena Khanina:
...the whole beauty of the past is that it is the past. O. Wilde
The past can always be erased by repentance, oblivion or renunciation, but the future is inevitable O. Wilde
The present never satisfies us, the future is unreliable, the past is irrevocable. Schopenhauer
To go into the future, you need to get rid of the past. Forrest Gump
The past is like a broken mirror. Trying to put the pieces back together can cause you to cut yourself.
The past is a gaping hole. You try to escape from it, but the harder you run, the deeper and scarier it becomes behind you, and you feel its edges licking your heels. The only chance is to turn around and face it bravely. But this is the same as looking into the grave of your love. Or how to kiss the barrel of a gun loaded and ready to smash your head into pieces.
Don't regret the past... it didn't spare you!
Never regret anything afterward,
If what happened cannot be changed.
Like a note from the past, I crumpled up my sadness,
Break the fragile thread with this past...
* I will never regret the present because it will soon become the past.
*What happened yesterday was yesterday, and today is a new day and a new life.
Don't try to bring back the past. You cannot return what already belongs to you.
The heart of the future lives
The present is sad
Everything is instant, everything will pass,
Whatever happens will be nice
You need to know the past not because it has passed, but because, when leaving, it was not able to remove its consequences...
A distinctive characteristic of a person is the desire to start everything without fail.
at first...
Why, even having gained the present, do we still try to return to the past? And even having found today's happiness, we try to reach the happiness of yesterday, each time returning to the days gone by...
You can treat the past well or badly, but regret is stupid. Regret is not constructive; nothing useful can be created from a feeling of regret. We need to be grateful to the past because it gives us certain experiences from which we learn and draw conclusions. Even if the experience is very bitter and difficult, you still learn a lesson from it, become smarter, and for this I thank him very much.
Memory warms a person from the inside, and, at the same time, tears him apart (Haruki Murakami “Kafka on the Beach”)
The past has smell, taste and color,
The desire to teach, influence and mean,
And only one thing, unfortunately, is missing -
Opportunities to reinvent yourself.
The past cannot be returned. At least restore faith in the future! Boris Krutier
The past stored in memory is part of the present. Tadeusz Kotarbiński
Remembering the past, you remember life...
Remember what happened and draw conclusions!
What has passed will never return... Only in memory remains...
Thank you for making me happy with you!
But now it's in the past...
You always need to know when the next stage of your life ends. A circle closes, a door closes, a chapter ends - it doesn’t matter what you call it, it’s important to leave in the past what already belongs to the past.
Time heals everything, whether you like it or not.
time takes everything away, leaving only darkness in the end...
sometimes in this darkness we meet others, and sometimes we lose them there again
Those who look back on their past do not deserve the future. O. Wilde.
People love to reflect on their achievements. At the same time, they quite often compare themselves with others and do not notice their own merits. Quotes about the past, to which a person inevitably returns in difficult moments of life, often help to look at the situation from the outside, to see ourselves in a new light. If people were attentive to the feelings of others, they would not make their loved ones suffer and would themselves achieve great results in any endeavor. Quotes about the past and future are presented in this article.
“Time passes, that’s the problem. There is less and less chance of doing anything” (Haruki Murakami)
Most people come to this conclusion in their old age. Unfortunately, life goes pretty fast. Many people do not have time to notice how, due to endless worries, they miss dozens of additional opportunities. Gradually, a person loses prospects that once seemed quite real and feasible to him.
You've probably noticed how quickly the days, weeks, and months fly by. A person can only constantly be surprised that the New Year holidays are approaching, but life has not changed. Quotes about the past often evoke sadness and make you feel some regret.
“If you often look back, the likelihood of stumbling increases” (E.M. Remarque)
A person could achieve more if he were more attentive to what fate offers him. Most people are so afraid of making an irreparable mistake that they do not take any decisive steps. Having stopped acting, they begin to wait for an independent solution to the problem, but nothing of the kind happens. Life proves that if you constantly look back at past events, the risk of not noticing the present increases and, as a result, you will miss your future.
Accept as a fact that the past cannot be changed. This will allow you to successfully build real relationships and fully concentrate on the task at hand. Quotes about the past touch human feelings. By reading them, we learn to analyze our own actions and make serious decisions. The past exists as necessary experience. You need to be able to let go of it in time in order to be able to fully move forward. Remember that only the present belongs to us. Only what is happening now can be changed.
“Without knowing the past, it is impossible to understand the present and the goals of the future” (M. Gorky)
What happens to us throughout life brings the necessary experience into it. Without the appropriate conditions, a person will never be able to change or learn new things. Any achievements come into our lives because there is a place for them. Quotes about the past allow us to see the sooner we accept the necessary lesson from the universe, the faster our existence changes for the better. As long as a person continues to persistently resist the will of fate, he cannot accept his own essence.
Thus, quotes about make a person think about the responsibility he has to himself. The more clearly a person understands his role in achievements, the easier it becomes for him to change his life for the better.
425People are never satisfied with the present and, from experience, having little hope for the future, decorate the irrevocable past with all the colors of their imagination.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
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422We question and interrogate the past so that it can explain our present and give us hints about our future.
Vissarion Belinsky
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389It’s good where we are not: in the past we are no longer there, and it seems beautiful.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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300The present is a consequence of the past, and therefore constantly turn your gaze to your backside, which will save you from significant mistakes.
Kozma Prutkov
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282The bitter the past, the sweeter the present.
William Shakespeare
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267Blessed is he who honors his ancestors with a pure heart.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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258No one can return the past. We must go, continue our path, and it is useless to look back.
Romain Rolland
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250There is no need to cling to vain regrets about the past and mourn over the changes that plague us, for change is the basis of life.
Anatole France
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246You can't go anywhere in the carriage of the past.
Maxim Gorky
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240What has died as reality is alive as edification.
Victor Marie Hugo
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230Does the sun shine on me today so that I can think about yesterday?
Johann Friedrich Schiller
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227The past is always with us, and everything that we are, everything that we have, comes from the past. We are his creation, and we live immersed in him. Not understanding this and not feeling the past means not understanding the present.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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224You can’t persuade an old man not to remember the past days.
Huang Yun-Jiao
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219Old wood burns better, an old horse is safer to ride, old books are more pleasant to read, old wine is more pleasant to drink, old friends are the most trustworthy.
Leonard Wright
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214When memories fade in our hearts, death makes them bloom again in its hands.
Fedor Ivanovich Tyutchev
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206Whatever bad happened to us, it all happened because of the Germans!
Ivan IV Vasilievich the Terrible
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205Those who do not look back cannot look forward.
Edmund Burke
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204Disrespect for ancestors is the first sign of immorality.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
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204Antiquity is admiring the vault of heaven.
Alexander Fedorovich Losev
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201Yesterday is today's teacher.
Publilius Syrus
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201Don’t let the past times be distorted by letters from those years.
Elias Canetti
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199We must take fire from the past, not ashes.
Jean Jaurès
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195We know that at least we are human beings, but half of our inspiration from our heroes is lost when we forget that they were human beings.
Alfred North Whitehead
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195The past is intended to serve us, but we can take possession of it only if it is subordinated to the present.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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194One mirror is more important than a whole gallery of ancestors.
Wolfgang Menzel
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194Past time never returns.
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193What has been passed can no longer be passed, what should be passed has not yet been passed.
Nagarjuna
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193The archive is first and foremost the law of what can be said.
Paul Michel Foucault
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191The past cannot simply be cut down with a sweeping blow of an axe. We need to figure out what in the old is dead and belongs to the grave and what is still alive and worthy of life.
Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin
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191Only when dealing with a frankly fictitious tale about past events does a person agree to accept responsibility for them and consider past events to be his past.
Hannah Arendt
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191There is too much of the past in us. We are making too little progress.
Elias Canetti
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190Those who overly revere antiquity become a laughing stock in modern times.
Francis Bacon
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189The Roman Empire was a bare, hollowed-out trunk.
Johan Huizinga
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188Flight into the past, strictly speaking, is the same as flight into the ideal.
Wilhelm Windelband
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188The wealth of light lies precisely in original people. Thanks to them and their works, light is light, and not desert. The memory of people and the history of their lives is the sum of his strength, his sacred property for eternity, supporting him and, as far as possible, helping him push forward through the still unknown depth.
Thomas Carlyle
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187Memories are magical clothes that do not wear out from use.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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186The present is a manifestation of the past, no matter how far it is from us. We know the past in the present With a sharp change in concepts and understandings of what is happening, with the massive creation of new ideas and distortions, the desire to connect them with the past is inevitable. Often this historical study is the only means of rapid insight into scientific thought and the only form of critical evaluation that allows one to discern what is valuable and permanent in the vast material.
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
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186Everything that has passed is past.
Horace
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185The legend is fresh, but hard to believe.
Alexander Sergeevich Griboyedov
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184The point is not about mentally drawing a big demarcation line between the past and the future, but about realizing the thoughts of the past.
Karl Marx
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184The past is the tomb of our dead feelings.
Christian Nestel Bovey
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184Past generations left us not so much ready-made solutions to problems, but rather the questions themselves.
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183The past is characterized by immobility and constancy. It does not change and bears the stamp of eternity, like an oil painting or a bronze or marble statue.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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182What happened recently, is it older or younger?
Gabriel Honore Marcel
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180The past is as dead as a broken gramophone record. Chasing the past is a thankless task, and if you want to be convinced of this, go to the sites of your past battles.
Ernest Hemingway
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176In the past, nothing is lost forever, but everything is preserved.
Victor Frankl
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176Some detail, the most insignificant and long-standing, stands out like a peak, while entire layers of my past settle without a trace.
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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176Any renunciation of the past, any sweeping denial of it is evil and delusion.
Semyon Ludwigovich Frank
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175The past blocks the way for the future.
Robert Walser
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175Those who lived before us accomplished a lot, but completed nothing.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)
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174Obsession with the past is a plausible and therefore very popular excuse to tie yourself hand and foot.
Alfred Adler
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174Anyone who does not remember his past is condemned to relive it.
George Santayana
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173We cannot accept the former unchanged, because we ourselves have become different.
Wilhelm Windelband
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171We must know the inventions of our ancestors.
Cicero
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170We must admit that the past is beautiful only in our dreams, and that in fact the good old time, the poetry of which we sweetly inhale, had a vulgar and sad tendency towards all those things that make up any human life.
Anatole France
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170There are different dead, some from the depths of millennia that have been experienced and now powerfully determine the direction of our modern best.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin
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170The destruction of statues is the negation of hierarchies that are no longer recognized.
Elias Canetti
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169With all the vicissitudes of fate, the greatest misfortune is to be happy in the past.
Boethius
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169Let man use the past centuries as the material on which the future grows.
Jean Marie Guyot
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169There is no universal way back. There is only movement forward, although unfamiliar depths and distances are spinning our heads, although the near future yawns before us, like an abyss in the fog. Although there is no return to the past, the past can give us an instructive lesson and serve as a guide.
Johan Huizinga
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169Wise people say that it is good and honorable to follow in the footsteps of our ancestors, if, of course, they followed the straight path.
Pliny the Younger
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169Without climbing a high mountain, you will not know the height of the sky. Without looking into a deep gorge in the mountains, you will not know the thickness of the earth. Without hearing the behests of your ancestors, you will not recognize the greatness of learning.
Xiong Tzu
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168Do not extinguish the torch, although its flame fluctuates until the lantern shows you the way, do not erase old expressions from speeches until you have managed to create new words.
Henrik Ibsen
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166We assume that if it is written, it means it happened.
Benedetto Croce
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165Is there a person who would not be impressed by antiquity, attested and certified by so many glorious monuments?
Cicero
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164Every day there is a student of yesterday.
Publilius Syrus
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163The past is reality remembered by the present.
Lev Karsavin
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162The archaic world was much less compact than the world that surrounds us, and was perceived as less compact.
Paul Karl Feyerabend
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162What has passed is no more.
Cicero
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161It is easier to blame the past than to correct it.
Livia Titus
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160When a writer dies, his work begins to be overestimated. In the same way, when a person dies, their role among us begins to be overestimated. This means that the past is completely created by death, which populates it with illusions.
Albert Camus
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160In our minds, the past is divided into centuries, and next to centuries there is no place for anything.
Elias Canetti
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159Always honor the traces of the past.
Caecilius Statius
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155When we remember, we later treat many of the things that once worried us with complete indifference.
Wilhelm Windelband
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155In ancient times, proximity to a high road during the era of Roman rule was not an advantage, but a great misfortune: these were not trade roads, but military roads.
Max Weber
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154Everything good and [useful] that has come down to us from antiquity must be followed, but new useful and good things must also be created.
Mo Tzu
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153Dead history is reborn, the past becomes present if life itself demands it.
Benedetto Croce
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152A pleasant memory of the hardships of the past.
Virgil Maro Publius
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152We sometimes like more what is far away: A friend who is far from us, days that are long gone.
Muhammad Babur