Coincidence Quote by Charles Sanders Peirce

“[Be] Non-insistent in the ‘relative’ and insistent in the ‘real’.”

— Dada Bhagwan

When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think…

— Michel Houellebecq

Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority…

— Leo Strauss

The past assumes the nature of the present.

— Oliver Stone

“I believe the present matters --- not the past! The past must go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I…

— Agatha Christie

“I'd rather identify with a past of infinite growth, than a past which hinders it.”

— Michelle D. Rosado

In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe,…

— Auguste Comte

“In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The present slips…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

— David Hume

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

— Frederick Buechner

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the…

— Russell Kirk