Bases Quote by John Jay Chapman

If we try to think back to the dim and distant past... what is it that helps us reconstruct those times, and to picture…

— Maria Montessori

Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through…

— Terence McKenna

In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the…

— Bertrand Russell

The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it…

— Freya Stark

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.

— Anonymous

Our sense that things are transient, that everything is passing and then if you want to save something from the endless flux of experience…

— Edward Hirsch

The Past Is Written on Your Face once we see ourselves in that much bigger context we are a mere blip in time we…

— Anonymous

To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence…

— Anonymous

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

— Mary Stewart

It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality.…

— Simon Schama

The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the…

— Joseph Campbell

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

— Stephen Gardiner