Aspect Quote by Eamon Duffy

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

— Golda Meir

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

— Anonymous

The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

— Edna Buchanan

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...

— Nicholas Sparks

Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.

— Walter Benjamin

The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which…

— Bill Crawford

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

The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.

— Ken Liu

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

— A. J. P. Taylor

The past assumes the nature of the present.

— Oliver Stone

“Identification with the past is an intuitive, imaginative process which seeks as its fulfillment a perception not merely of the relevancy of the past,…

— Robert W. Hanning

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

— Simone de Beauvoir