"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned……" — Errol Morris
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility."
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31 Quotes by Errol Morris
Errol Morris has 31 quotes on this site.
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Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.
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War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is…
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I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.
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Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape,…
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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
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I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to…
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The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
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A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
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Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the…
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But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
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Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
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Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to…
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More Cannot Remember Quotes
This quote is filed under Cannot Remember Quotes,
one of 47 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
— George Santayana
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In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of…
— Tadatoshi Akiba
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We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history,…
— John Ruskin
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Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.
— Bill T. Jones
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I cannot remember a time when I was not getting into fights.
— George Foreman
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I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were…
— Richard Branson
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I admire David De Gea. I cannot remember anyone coming into Manchester United and being criticised the way he was. He…
— Peter Schmeichel
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Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to…
— David Hackett Fischer
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Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is…
— Alexander Cockburn
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To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember
— Jimmy Hoffa
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Boredom is the consciousness of repetition. Because animals cannot remember the past, they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the…
— Rajneesh
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I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.
— John Brown
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