Alan Watts Quotes, Past Quotes, Reality Quotes

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

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Study the past if you want to define the future.

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If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Past Quotes

Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.

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Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Encouragement Quotes , Past Quotes

Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.

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Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

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In the past, I had workaholic issues.

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The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

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Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Past Quotes , One Day Quotes

In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Past Quotes , Giving Quotes

The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.

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Tags : A. O. Scott Quotes , Eye Quotes , Past Quotes

Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence. Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. ... It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.

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Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.

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While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

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Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Book Quotes , Past Quotes

It's easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance is being judged. How the record has been achieved is crucial.

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It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I want its stairs to creak as if to the footsteps of women with hoop skirts and men in boots and spurs. But they've made it into a blondined, rouged-up old woman of sixty.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes

I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Past Quotes , Giving Quotes

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

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