“Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.” TryingPastRememberLostIdealsStoppingRefrain Author:Lawrence Lessig
“Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.” WantChildrenKidsPastParentIdealsStriveApprovalReversal Author:Elizabeth Kolbert
“It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses.” PeopleWorldLongHas BeensAgePastGrowingMankindBlessingAdvantageIdealsPerfectionAbusePressureInnovationFruitImprovementEnjoymentResolutionAnticipationSchemesVisionariesNotoriousAggravatedInflictionKnowledge Of The Past Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future.” WantNeedsPastAbilityMankindIdealsCompetenceUnattainablePast PresentPast Present And Future Author:Russell L. Ackoff
“The world in the past has been ruled by force, and man has dominated over woman by reason of his more forceful and aggressive qualities both of body and mind. But the balance is already shifting—force is losing its weight and mental alertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love and service, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy. Hence the new age will be an age less masculine, and more permeated with the feminine ideals—or, to speak more exactly, will be an age in which the masculine and feminine elements of civilization will be more evenly balanced.” MenWorldMindHas BeensReasonBodyAgePastSpiritualSpeakStrongForceQualityBalanceCivilizationElementsLosingIdealsWeightIntuitionFeminineAggressiveBalancedNew AgeMasculineShiftingMind And BodyAlertnessMasculine And FeminineAscendancy Author:Abdu'l-Bahá
“To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true elation.” FeelsImportantEndsMightPastBitsEmotionPerceptionIdealsUltimateIntelligentBeing ThereContributingOffspringElationIdeal Society Book:Siege of Darkness: The Legend of Drizzt Source: Siege of Darkness: The Legend of Drizzt
“The fear of AIDS imposes on an act whose ideal is an experience of pure presentness (and a creation of the future) a relation to the past to be ignored at one's peril. Sex no longer withdraws its partners, if only for a moment, from the social. It cannot be considered just a coupling; it is a chain, a chain of transmission, from the past.” IfsMomentsPastSocialSexCreationPureIdealsRelationAidsPartnersChainsIgnoredPerilTransmissionCoupling Author:Susan Sontag
“In the past, love for me has always meant forever, and sure, you still nurse some of those fantasies, but I don't try to force it anymore. I hung on to my fairy-tale ideals for a long time. But where I am now, what I've been through, there are no rules. There are lots of ways it can turn out.” WayTryingYearsKindLongStillsDifferentPastTurnsForceFantasyForeverLong TimeIdealsTalesFairyJust OneNurseDifferent KindsFairy TaleHungPast Love Author:Jennifer Lopez
“When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder meets pleasure the result is a Triumph. Dr Grordbort is the future. And the past. Which makes an ideal present.” PastPleasureResultsWonderComedyAdventureIdealsTriumphCharmDrsIngenuitySteampunk Author:Stephen Fry
“The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies what you are seeing with the borders are just outlines of historical crimes past warlords empires its nothing to be loyal to. Have loyalty to reason, to evidence, to ideals not to lines drawn up mostly by criminals.” WayLooksCountryReasonPastDiesLinesSeeingCrimeEvidenceIdealsPoliceHistoricalCriminalsLoyaltyBest WayBordersEmpiresMapsLoyalOutlinesChalkWarlordsWhen Someone Dies Author:Stefan Molyneux