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The Outcasts of Time QUOTES

The Outcasts of Time QUOTES

1 " If we wish to understand our own place on earth, we must seek to understand those who have gone on before us. We must look beyond the present moment and see ourselves reflected in the deep pool of time as individual elements of a greater humanity. "

― Ian Mortimer , The Outcasts of Time

2 " There's so much beauty in the world, don't close your eyes to it just because you've lost your own small patch of happiness. "

― Ian Mortimer , The Outcasts of Time

3 " The man who has no knowledge of the past has no wisdom. "

― Ian Mortimer , The Outcasts of Time

4 " The last day I was here, in eighteen forty-three, was the only time since the plague when we were not at war. "

― Ian Mortimer , The Outcasts of Time

5 " If we wish to understand our own place on earth, we must seek to understand those who have gone on before us. We must look beyond the present moment and see ourselves reflected in the deep pool of time as individual elements of a greater humanity, and not as the passing shapes that we may glimpse every day in a looking glass, which then are gone forever. "

― Ian Mortimer , The Outcasts of Time

6 " How then should we regard the past? Indeed, why should we study it at all but to prove to our fellow men that we can, and for the skill of disputation? The answer lies not in preferring the blurred, grand vision to the scrupulous detail, nor does it lie in the opposite prejudice: neither contains sufficient truth. Instead, we must find our own way, in the sure knowledge that we too will enter that underworld, where the sun does not shine and the wind does not blow. If we wish to understand our own place on earth, we must seek to understand those who have gone on before us. We must look beyond the present moment and see ourselves reflected in the deep pool of time as individual elements of a greater humanity, and not as the passing shapes that we may glimpse every day in a looking glass, which then are gone forever. "

― Ian Mortimer , The Outcasts of Time

7 " But I do know this: no loss is absolute. There is always something left to live for. "

― Ian Mortimer , The Outcasts of Time

8 " There’s so much beauty in the world, don’t close your eyes to it just because you’ve lost your own small patch of happiness. "

― Ian Mortimer , The Outcasts of Time

9 " In this new century, people are all divided and unsatisfied, hoping that God will smile on them personally. "

― Ian Mortimer , The Outcasts of Time

10 " There are times in life when the cycle of the ages and the destruction of one generation’s work by the next is an uplifting thing, for it promises the young so much. And there are times, later in life, when you realise that it means that your work too will be swept away. Honestly, the only way to secure everlasting fame is to produce such a fine work that no age will ever rival it. "

― Ian Mortimer , The Outcasts of Time