It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
It is useless to revert to similar circumstances in the Past.
It is not the past that matters but the future.
In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs exclusively to the past or to the future, but with that which is, both now and eternally — in short, with reason.
I believe the present matters – not the past! The past must go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms – a false perspective.
History-writing is a way of getting rid of the past.
Even you are not rich enough to buy back your past. No man is.
Even people capable of living in the past don’t really know what the future holds.
Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.[Buddhist quote on Ellen’s bathroom mirror]
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.
