Alan Watts Quotes, Past Quotes, Thinking Quotes

We think that the world is limited and explained by its past. We tend to think that what happened in the past determines what is going to happen next, and we do not see that it is exactly the other way around! What is always the source of the world is the present; the past doesn't explain a thing. The past trails behind the present like the wake of a ship and eventually disappears.

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The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Past Quotes , Air Quotes

Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind.

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Tags : Akiane Kramarik Quotes , Past Quotes , Blind Quotes

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

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

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Past Quotes , Care Quotes

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Past Quotes , Keys Quotes

Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Life Quotes , Past Quotes

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Learning Quotes , Past Quotes

This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.

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Tags : Adyashanti Quotes , Past Quotes , Mind Quotes

Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

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

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Past Quotes

There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Past Quotes , Choices Quotes

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Past Quotes , Bores You Quotes

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

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

I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Past Quotes , Thinking Quotes

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Passion Quotes , Past Quotes

In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or another. But this is no longer the case. We must therefore find some other way of establishing basic ethical principles.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Past Quotes , Ethical Principles Quotes

But don’t forget that memory is like salt: the right amount brings out the flavour in food, too much ruins it. If you live in the past all the time, you’ll find yourself with no present to remember.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Memories Quotes , Past Quotes

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Past Quotes , College Quotes

The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Believe Quotes , Past Quotes