“Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the papyrus sheets, which are formed out of several strips and preserve the memory of the thoughts and deeds of men.” MenLostMemoriesUnitedVirtueDeedsPreservesAcquireSheetsPapyrus Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.” SeemsPastMemoriesStepsGraceYouthEternalAddPreservesEvery StepPast MemoriesEternal Youth Author:Madame de Stael
“I've filled my whole life trying to preserve the memory of living, in the fight against dying. Perhaps the only thing I've done, since stopping death is impossible, is to show this fight. The fight itself does not satisfy us either.” TryingDoeDoneWholeShowsFightingMemoriesImpossibleDyingFilledWhole LifePreservesStopping Author:Christian Boltanski
“He sought a way to preserve the past. John Hershel was one of the founders of a new form of time travel.... a means to capture light and memories. He actually coined a word for it... photography. When you think about it, photography is a form of time travel. This man is staring at us from across the centuries, a ghost preserved by light.” ThinkingMenWayMeanLightPastFormMemoriesCenturyPhotographyGhostPreservesStaringCaptureTime TravelFounders Author:Carl Sagan
“We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.” KnowsMemoriesPreservesFixedTransformedFrozenRecollectionJarsProust Book:Hallucinations Source: Hallucinations
“You can keep your memory intact, preserve your brain's health, and minimize the risk of aging and senile dementia, things that are greatly feared as people grow older.” PeopleGrowsMemoriesBrainRiskAgingPreservesOur MemoriesDementiaSenile Author:Deepak Chopra