Who controls the present controls the past. There's a power structure, if you like, between the present and the past and the future, and that's what I'm interested in.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.
One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.
If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
The past has to inform the present.
I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.