
„There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.“
— John Diefenbaker 13th Prime Minister of Canada 1895 - 1979
"On Sir John A. Macdonald" Toronto Star (October 9, 1964)
Bodhicaryavatara
„There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.“
— John Diefenbaker 13th Prime Minister of Canada 1895 - 1979
"On Sir John A. Macdonald" Toronto Star (October 9, 1964)
„I now spend a good part of my day dreaming of times past, present and future.“
— Arthur C. Clarke British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host 1917 - 2008
90th Birthday Reflections (2007)
Kontext: I now spend a good part of my day dreaming of times past, present and future. As I try to survive on 15 hours sleep a day, I have plenty of time to enjoy vivid dreams. Being completely wheel-chaired doesn't stop my mind from roaming the universe — on the contrary!
— John James Cowperthwaite British colonial administrator 1915 - 2006
March 27, 1968, page 212.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council
— J. Howard Moore 1862 - 1916
"The Genealogy of Animals", p. 85
The Universal Kinship (1906), The Physical Kinship
— Paramahansa Yogananda Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship 1893 - 1952
Songs of the Soul by Paramahansa Yogananda, Quotes drawn from the poem "Samadhi"
„I'm living in the future so the present is my past.
My presence is a present, kiss my ass.“
— Kanye West American rapper, singer and songwriter 1977
Monster
Lyrics, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
— Farah Pahlavi Empress of Iran 1938
Interview: Farah Pahlavi Recalls 30 Years In Exile http://www.rferl.org/content/Interview_Farah_Pahlavi_Recalls_30_Years_In_Exile/2111354.html, Radio Free Europe, (July 27, 2010).
Interviews
„Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present".“
— Paulo Coelho, buch Der Alchimist
Quelle: The Alchemist
— R. G. Collingwood British historian and philosopher 1889 - 1943
Quelle: "Some Perplexities about time: with an attempted solution" (1925), p. 149. as cited in: Jonathan Gorman, "The transmission of our understanding of historical time." Historia Social y de la Educación 1.2 (2012): 129-152.
— Geoffrey Blainey Australian historian 1930
Quelle: The Great Seesaw: A New View of the Western World, 1750-2000 (1988)
— Dejan Stojanovic, buch The Creator
“Passage,” p. 45
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “The Dream Chamber”
— Thich Nhat Hanh Religious leader and peace activist 1926
Thích Nhất Hạnh here quotes and interprets the "Ten Penetrations" of the Avatamsaka Sutra
The Sun My Heart (1996)
Kontext: The tenth penetration is, "All times penetrate one time. One time penetrates all times — past, present, and future. In one second, you can find the past, present, and future." In the past, you can see the present and the future. In the present, you can find the past and future. In the future, you can find the past and present. They "inter-contain" each other. Space contains time, time contains space. In the teaching of interpenetration, one determines the other, the other determines this one. When we realize our nature of interbeing, we will stop blaming and killing, because we know that we inter-are.
— Alexander Maclaren British minister 1826 - 1910
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 107.
„The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.“
— Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899
What Is Religion? (1899) is Ingersoll's last public address, delivered before the American Free Religious association, Boston, June 2, 1899. Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Dresden Memorial Edition Volume IV, pages 477-508, edited by Cliff Walker. http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/ingwhatrel.htm
Variante: The present is the child, and the necessary child, of all the past, and the mother of all the future.
„I'm keeping an eye on the future, an eye on the past, and the present in my pocket.“
— Brandon Boyd American rock singer, writer and visual artist 1976
Lyrics, Light Grenades (2006)
„The past, the present,
And the future,
Are all side by side,
Hand in hand“
— Kate Havnevik Norwegian singer-songwriter 1975
Song lyrics
„I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future.“
— Rachel Carson American marine biologist and conservationist 1907 - 1964
Preface to Humane Biology Projects (1961) by the Animal Welfare Institute
Kontext: I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.
— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury English politician and Earl 1671 - 1713
Vol. 1, p. 26; "A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm".
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)