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“Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.”

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French philosopher known for his work in epistemology, poetics, and the philosophy of science. His writings have had a profound impact on 20th-century philosophy, particularly in understanding human cognition and the scientific method. more

“Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.”

World Should May Has Beens Matter Past Church Treats Catholic Arguing Contrary Mysticism Luther Scholarship Catholic Church Disrespect Great Power

Author:William Butler Yeats

“Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.”

Past Form Nature Natural Lord Gold Passing Passings Golden Awake Emperor Natural Things Hammered Drowsy Lords And Ladies Byzantium

Author:William Butler Yeats

“He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing of genuine reminiscences. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil.”

“All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O Pioneers!”

World Past Strong Behinds Labor March Pioneers

Book:Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867

Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867

“Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . .”

Past Anticipation Anticipate Evaluate

Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible and acceptable to oneself.”

Past Memories Instruments Oneself Narrative Acceptable Trunks Attics

Author:Stanley Kauffmann

“I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling”

Years Feelings Past Form Good Things Resolution Over The Past Good Feeling

Book:It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

Source: It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

“For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.”

Way Action Past Winning Week Opponents Initiative Reacting

Book:Green Team

Source: Green Team

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