Robert M. Pirsig Quotes About Past
-
The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.
→ -
Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?
→ -
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore is always unreal. Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.
→ -
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
→
Related Authors
-
E. Nesbit Author -
Hermann Hesse Poet -
Joseph Heller Novelist -
Jack Kerouac Novelist -
Richard Bach Writer -
Philip K. Dick Novelist -
Kurt Vonnegut Writer -
Robert Greene American author -
Elizabeth Gilbert Author -
Muriel Spark Novelist -
David Deida Author -
Marshall McLuhan Philosopher -
Plato Philosopher -
Henri Poincare Mathematician -
William James Philosopher -
Douglas Hofstadter Professor -
Charles Sanders Peirce Philosopher -
Aristotle Philosopher -
Alexis de Tocqueville Historian -
Eugen Herrigel Biographer