Memories Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Remembrance of the past may give rise to dangerous insights, and the established society seems to be apprehensive of the subversive contents of memory.”

— Herbert Marcuse

“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the…

— Thomas Lynch

“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is…

— Walter Benjamin

“Whether individual, collective, or even written history, memory is not a fixed, passive storage system: it is dynamic, changing according to different circumstances. The…

— Suzanne Keene

“Memory is an imaginal constellation of past and present that generates a new experience. Memory is not the storing of the past, but the…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

“Memory is not history, even though memories may be among the evidence a historian examines in constructing a historical past.”

— Terry Nardin

It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“St. Thomas saw memory systems as essential to full realization of the virtue of prudence; for to achieve virtuous goals in the future, we…

— Kevin Vost

“Each time I have a lapse of memory, I think of the anguish which must afflict those who know they no longer remember anything.…

— Emil Cioran

“This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of "memory," not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future…

— Richard Rohr

“Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.” — Cicero”

— Cicero

“We view memories as archives of past events—of what has actually happened. But in reality, memories are nothing more than descriptions of what we…

— Mo Gawdat