Catch Up With You

Chase You

Look Back At You

Only Make Sense Later

Stir Up

past

future

present

one-liner

Chewbacca

overthinking

is not only what was, but also what failed to be.

For Benjamin, the concept of memory embraces an epistemological content, a philosophy of history and a political project. As an epistemological concept, it entails addressing the past not only as what was but as what failed to realize itself. This approach places us in a different position in relation to the present, as we contemplate both the forgotten past and those aspects of the present which are in danger of being excluded. A new knowledge transforms the philosophy of history: the history of the victors suffers from a significant omission, the truth of the vanquished.

is a foreign country... they do things differently there.

a foreign country... they do things differently there.

The past is a pebble in my shoe. Edgar Allan Poe

is a picture to be observed, not a house to be lived in.

The past is a picture to be observed, not a house to be lived in. (K. Ann Price)

is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. Stephen Ambrose

is able to be changed but the present is so stubborn.

One is allowed to change the past: the present is so stubborn. Jorge Luis Borges

is, along with the future, not a static container, nor a part of temporal objects, or even a point of time... past and future are rather the ways in which temporal objects and the points of time they occupy appear to us.

It is important to note that now, past, and future are not static containers, nor are they parts of temporal objects, or even points of time... they are, rather, the ways in which temporal objects and the points of time they occupy appear to us. (blattner in dreyfus 'companion to phenomenology' : 127)

is, along with the future, simply a mode or style of of non-being (it is the 'no-longer' while the future is the 'not-yet').

neglects the retention of the past and the impending character of the future by regarding past and future simply as modes of nonbeing (as 'no-longer' and 'not-yet'). According to Heidegger, 'temporality' is a preeminent characteristic of human Dasein, given its special attentiveness to the meaning of being' (Dallmayr 1993: 242)

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