
The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
– Will Durant
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- No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past. – Will Durant
- Not only the dead are dead but also those who are deprived of their freedoms are also dead! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Don’t cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- If you are happy with your past, you visit it often; and strangely, if you are unhappy with your past, you visit it often too! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Grow past your past and march past the flag of the past! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
- Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
- When egoism ends, that indeed is called the Absolute supreme Self (Parmatma). Egoism indeed is the illusion. – Dada Bhagwan
- We cry for ourselves, don’t we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring. – Clive Barker
- The past is never dead. It’s not even past. – William Faulkner
- Stop digging up the past, lay down your shovel, the past is dead. – Bert McCoy
- As I witness the dead of beloved ones, it makes be become more conscious that life indeed has an end. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Society is indeed a contract … it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. – Edmund Burke
- The memory of the dead is indeed a good remorse. (Le souvenir des morts – Est bien un bon remords) – Charles de Leusse
- A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it. – Aman Jassal
- A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it. – Aman Jassal
- Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. – Will Durant
- So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him. – Will Durant
- War does one good-”it teaches people geography. – Will Durant
- Men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things. – Will Durant
- History is an excellent teacher with few pupils. – Will Durant
- [V]irtue is not news, and virtuous men, like happy nations, have no history. – Will Durant
- [I]ndeed, one hears, in early Christian theology, as many echoes of Persian dualism as of Hebrew Puritanism or Greek philosophy. – Will Durant
- [S]hame is a child of custom rather than of nature. – Will Durant
- There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand. – Will Durant
- [W]orship, if not the child, is at leastthe brother, of fear. – Will Durant
- The family is the nucleus of civilization. – Will Durant
- Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one. – Will Durant
- The state is the soul of man enlarged under the microscope of history. – Will Durant
- but now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak. – Will Durant
- All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya. – Will Durant
- Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind. – Will Durant
- as if it were a point of honor-”which, indeed, a point of art often is. – Vladimir Nabokov
- Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately. – Robert Aickman
- Learn from the past, log the lessons from the past, butleave the past! – Elizabeth George
- Because I have forgiven my past, and God has forgiven my past, no person on earth can make me denounce my past. It’s what made me who I am today. – JulieAnne
- We go to the past to lay the blame – since the past can’t argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries. – Glen Duncan
- We go to the past to lay the blame – since the past can’t argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries. – Glen Duncan
