Eamon Duffy famous quotes

Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.
-- Eamon Duffy

#Past #History #Aspect

History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.
-- Eamon Duffy

#History #Tangled #Messy

We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket... We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us.
-- Eamon Duffy

#Heart #Past #History

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.
-- Eamon Duffy

#Knowing #History #Comfort

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.

If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.

I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute

The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.

History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.

Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’

Jewelry is something that has to do with emotion. That aspect of jewelry really interests me.