"How can I tell that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical se…"

"The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. What its great …"

"All the political, economic, administrative, and scientific issues of our times were unknown to the Prophet's compani…"

"One thing alone not even God can do, To make undone whatever hath been done."

"History is about the past. Yet it exists only in the present – the moment of its creation as history provides us with…"

"We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible."

"Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past."

"There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like ever…"

"Nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history. To be sure, only a redeemed mankind receives t…"

"Prisca juvent alios; ego me nunc denique natum Gratulor."