#past

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#alone #become #comprehensible #discovered #enters

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#better #dreams #future #i #like

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know. ↗

— Lara St. John

#era #grateful #having #history #i

The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit. ↗

— John Joly

#built #collective #feeble #many #miles

The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street. ↗

— Norah Jones

#coolest thing #few #gotten #guest #guest star

There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#approach #assessment #critical #current #elite

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#carcass #cow #dead #dressed #food

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#future #most #organisms #organizations #past

Redeem thy misspent time that's past, And live this day as if thy last. ↗

— Thomas Ken

#last #live #misspent #past #redeem

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#feeling #gets #giving #holiday #other