#memory

Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#decisions #justice #know #longer #memory

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins. ↗

— Kay Boyle

#memory #picture #reconstruct #ruins #you

The true art of memory is the art of attention. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#attention #memory #true #true art

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#everyday #everyday life #find #heart #just

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. ↗

— Malcom X

#history #lower #lower animals #man #memory

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him. ↗

— William Godwin

#creature #ended #him #himself #his

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#bad one #good #good memory #gratitude #hope

Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#everybody #fallible #fragments #how #join

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#any #brain #dna #genes #material

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. ↗

— David Halberstam

#less #memory #often #than #truth