What now is clear and plain is, that neither things to come nor past are. Nor is it properly said, “there be three times, past, present, and to come”: yet perchance it might be properly said, “there be three times; a present of things past, a present of things present, and a present of things future.” For these three do exist in some sort, in the soul, but otherwhere do I not see them; present of things past, memory; present of things present, sight; present of things future, expectation.
The man who spoke at my high school graduation (East Central High School in Tulsa, Class of ’78) actually quoted this passage of Augustine’s in his speech, which I remember as part of my present of things past. Unfortunately I have forgotten the speaker’s name.
From Augustine’s Confessions, Book 11:
The man who spoke at my high school graduation (East Central High School in Tulsa, Class of ’78) actually quoted this passage of Augustine’s in his speech, which I remember as part of my present of things past. Unfortunately I have forgotten the speaker’s name.
Quite apart from the content of the quotes themselves, why are you posting so many in open threads instead of in quotes threads?