„The only man in the past whom I really respect was Seurat… He didn’t let his hand interfere with his mind.“

— Marcel Duchamp

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„No man is himself, he is the sum of his past. There is no such thing really as was because the past is. It is a part of every man, every woman, and every moment.“
— William Faulkner
„Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„The majestic king of Troy slipped past the restand kneeling down beside Achilles, clasped his kneesand kissed his hands, those terrible, man-killing handsthat had slaughtered Priam's many sons in battle.“
— Homér
„When man becomes aware of the movement of his own thoughts, he will see the division between the thinker and thought, the observer and the observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is insight without any shadow of the past or of time. This timeless insight brings about a deep, radical mutation in the mind.“
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
„How unsearchable his judgments [are] and past tracing out his ways [are]! For “who has come to know Jehovah’s mind, or who has become his counselor?“
— Paul of Tarsus