Quotes about Memory

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

The power of citizens in a society is determined by their ranking in games that have been played. A society preserves its memory of past winners. Its record-keeping functions are crucial to societal order. Large bureaucracies grow out of the need to verify the numerous entitlements of the citizens of that society.

Any attempt to vary from the past in such a way as to cut the past off, causing it to be forgotten, has little cultural importance.

in the first part, the master-faculties are Observation and Memory, so in the second, the master-faculty is the Discursive Reason.

The memory of a good deed lives.

Sometimes I'll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I'll just remember it.

death, she still was the most

In fifty years, no one will remember anything but your good works, the strength of your reign, and your love for your wife.

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

I wouldn't mind that as my epitaph.