„Be there, for once and all,Severed great minds from small,Announced to each his station in the Past!“

— Robert Browning

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„All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.“
— Nikola Tesla
„… the republic of creative minds: each giant calling to his brother through the desolate intervals of time. And undisturbed by the wanton noises of the dwarfs that creep past beneath them, their high spirit-converse continues.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„The only man in the past whom I really respect was Seurat... He didn't let his hand interfere with his mind.“
— Marcel Duchamp
„As his mother said, once you started worrying about the future, you started obsessing about the past.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Each one of us is the storehouse of all the past. The individual is the human who is all mankind.“
— 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