Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.
I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.
I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.