Time Quote by Timothy Snyder Download Open image ““The seduction by a mythicized pas prevents us from thinking about possible futures”” — Timothy Snyder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Time
“The seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Visions are possibilities. Actions are the only thing able to determine our futures.” — Jacquelyn Frank Copy Share Image
“It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity.” — Sverker Sörlin Copy Share Image
“In the absence of faith, our dreams will move from feasible aspirations to implausible fantasy.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“the deepest function of myth, which is to lend narrative order to apparently disconnected bits of information,” — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“There is no future in a sacred myth. Why not? Because of our curiosity. (...) Whatever we hold precious, we cannot protect it from… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“A story is only an outlet for frustrated aspirations, for aspirations which the story-teller conceives in accordance with a limited stock of spiritual resources… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
“Myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless pattern, the pious formula, into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out… — Thomas Mann Mythology by Christopher Dell Copy Share Image
“Destiny is not to be trifled with. Do not commit the tragic error of satisfying present appetite at the cost of future fulfilment” — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
“Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The time is out of joint. O cursed spite,/That ever I was born to set it right!” Thus Hamlet. Yet he concludes: “Nay, come,… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“the democracies that arose after the First World War (and the Second) often collapsed when a single party seized power in some combination of… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“salami tactics—slicing off layers of opposition one by one. Most people were distracted, some were imprisoned, and others were outmatched.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy...We imbibed the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The key to this translation of ideology to politics in both cases was an effective appeal to human experience at the crucial time.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself. History allows us to see… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up.… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“As she observed, “the first essential step on the road to total domination is to kill the juridical person in man.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they were facts.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Once we subliminally accept that we are watching a reality show rather than thinking about real life, no image can actually hurt the president… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Confidence in duration is the antidote to panic and the tonic of demagogy.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
'Mad TV' is one of my most favorite shows of all time and is a huge part of my obsession with sketch comedy. — Shane Dawson Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“William didn't look like he'd be difficult about anything - he was thin and sandy-haired and already wore eyeglasses like his father. Most of… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
Intel has a very complete process that I go through any time I want to sell that ensures I have no insider information. — Brian Krzanich Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
Resist discouragement by speaking His Word over your future. Keep standing. Keep hoping; keep believing because He is working behind the scenes. He's going… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Me.. I have been through a lot, but I still manage to have a smile on my face. Im not worried about the past… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
