If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death?...But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated...'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan,'controls the future:who controls the present controls the past.'...All that was needed was a series of victories over your own memory.
George OrwellStichwörter: politics past introspection 1984 george-orwell past-and-future politics-freedom-liberty good-vs-evil dystopian-fiction
You can’t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you —- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do you know why? Because they’re lonely. The past and memories are very lonely things. I don’t believe in God. Because he doesn’t have a fixed form. The past certainly does exist, even in a world where the future doesn’t have a fixed form. Even if it’s being colored by misunderstandings and delusions, a person’s past can’t be anything but the truth as long as he believes in it. If that’s what you base your actions or your way of life on, isn’t that like being god?
Ryohgo NaritaStichwörter: past-and-future izaya durarara
It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind.
Katherine MarshStichwörter: fate past-and-future choose
The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
T.S. EliotStichwörter: perception past history-repeating-itself historical presence historical-perspective the-past past-and-future clarity-of-perception human-perception jared-wheat
The past is the past, you cant change it. All you can do is look forward to the future.
Ashlee VanDykenStichwörter: past-and-future
Ludlow put a hand on his arm. "A friend of mine used to say, 'You cannot change the past, but every moment is an opportunity to change your future.
F.E. HigginsStichwörter: choice past-and-future choosing-your-path-in-life
Kita hanyalah dua orang dari masa lalu. Aku hanyalah masa lalumu, sementara dia adalah masa depanmu. Kau tahu harus memilih yang mana, bukan?
Widyawati OktaviaStichwörter: love choices-and-consequences past-and-future
The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.
Ashim ShankerStichwörter: perception time memory absurdism metafiction past-and-future arrow illusion-of-self fallacies astrophysics space-time
He may actually have been existing in the past and approximating a conceivable future, which brought even the assumption of his immediate perceptions as being in the present into doubt. And thus, he couldn’t—beyond a hint of skepticism—say that he truly existed right now and in this moment, but instead it seemed more rational to assume that he simply existed and nothing more.
Ashim ShankerStichwörter: skepticism ontology solipsism past-and-future past-and-present time-slipping perception-and-reality approximate-truth
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