"There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called "a blessed act of oblivion". We must all turn our backs upon t…"

"The point at issue between the two theories [A and B theory] is whether 'time' really is, in some deep ontological se…"

"The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on th…"

"Like my three brothers before me, I pick up a fallen standard. Sustained by their memory of our priceless years toget…"

"The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and w…"

"Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the …"

"Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge."

"An overflowing pot must be emptied before anything new can be added. If you cling to the sorrows of the past, how can…"

"More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past."

"Man must have been conscious of memories and purposes long before he made any explicit distinction between past, pres…"