Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
“The past is the past. You cannot change it, but you can learn from it.”
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
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“But you cannot change your past, no matter how you craft your future.”
Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto: A Novel
“We cannot change the history of the past.”
“Even God cannot change the past.”
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI, sect. 2, 1139b.
Variant translation: Not even the gods can change the past.
“But two or three days later I was talking about the whole thing in the past tense.”
Be Here Now (1971)
Context: I thought at that moment, "Wow, I've got it made. I'm just a new beautiful being — I'm just an inner self — all I'll ever need to do is look inside and I'll know what to do and I can always trust it, and here I'll be forever."
But two or three days later I was talking about the whole thing in the past tense. I was talking about how I "experienced" this thing, because I was back being that anxiety-neurotic, in a slightly milder form, but still, my old personality was sneaking back up on me.
The Great Infidels (1881)
Context: All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, — never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.
