The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
Henri Bergson
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of... →
Isaiah Berlin
It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot... →
John Desmond Bernal
There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.
William Bernbach
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
Tim Berners-Lee
Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps... →
Halle Berry
When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the... →
Steve Berry
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding... →
Wendell Berry
Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be... →
Annie Besant