“The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.” PastLife IsStrangeBearsWitnessLive LifeStrangeness Author:Eugene O'Neill
“Since Martin Luther closed his eyes, no such son of our people has appeared again. It has been decided that we shall be the first to witness his reappearance.... I think the time is past when one may not say the names of Hitler and Luther in the same breath. They belong together; they are of the same old stamp.” PeopleThinkingFirstsMayHas BeensEyeTogetherPastNamesSonDecidedBreathsWitnessHis EyesStampsLuther Author:Bernhard Rust
“Based on my own personal experience – both as an investor in recent years and an expert witness in years past – rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.” YearsPastThreeMy OwnFourInvestingNoiseWitnessExpertsInvestorsPersonal ExperiencesVariablesYears Past Author:Martin J. Whitman
“History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.” ActionPastExampleWitnessInstructors Author:Miguel de Cervantes
“Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.” WorldWellsBodyPastChangeDifferencesWorryLearningFutureQuietEternalWitnessStillness Author:Robert Adams
“Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly hangs about it, since it is the immovable standard and silent witness of all our memories and assertions; and the past and the future, which in our anxious life are so differently interesting and so differently dark, are one seamless garment for the truth, shining like the sun.” IdeasRealityTruthPastFatherMemoriesDarkInterestingSunTruth IsStandardsShiningSilentWitnessAweCoveredAnxiousOur FatherGarmentsOur MemoriesAssertionEclecticSeamless Book:Scepticism and Animal Faith Source: Scepticism and Animal Faith