I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.
Kage BakerTags: history science-fiction genre sf past-and-future human-experience past-and-present
I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.
Glen CookTags: history past-and-present
It's all history out there, Clemens. Your history, my history. You and me, boy, not dates and things. You and me. That's what history is all about. How we came to be here, in the way we are, the clothes we wear.
David WisemanTags: history past-and-present
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching back and back into ages that can but be surmised, is half-mystical in basis. The intoxication, at once so heady and so devout, is not the romantic melancholy engendered by broken towers and mouldered stones; it is the soaring of the imagination into the high empyrean where huge episodes are tangled with myths and dreams; it is the stunning impact of world history on its amazed heirs.
Rose MacaulayTags: history the-past ruins past-and-present
Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.
Bryant McGillTags: letting-go moving-forward past-and-present looking-forward
...only think a moment that we are here now, and that that was then, and it has come to this, and how odd, odd, odd it is!
John CrowleyTags: strangeness odd surreal now past-and-present then
The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.
Orson Scott CardTags: inspirational pain reality joy pleasure memory grief memories past-and-present
My past takes no hostages, no prisoners. I've let go of yesterday and am free to receive the beautiful gift of the present.
Jaeda DeWaltTags: wisdom life inspirational future past-and-present letting-go-of-the-past
Fuck the past. This was the present.
Maggie StiefvaterTags: past present past-and-present
Look at the swell. You'll not find a bigger swell anywhere. It has half the globe for its run-up. You're young. You have the whole world. Don't bother yourself with the past.
Carsten JensenTags: past-and-present live-now
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