Logo
Quote by Wendell Berry
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to es

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. – Wendell Berry

Other quotes by Wendell Berry

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. – Wendell Berry

Category:
Competition
Author
Wendell Berry
Read Quote

We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. – Wendell Berry

Category:
Gardens
Author
Wendell Berry
Read Quote

I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first. – Wendell Berry

Category:
Identity
Author
Wendell Berry
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Past
category

My soul is not a palace of the past… – James Russell Lowell, “A Glance Behind the Curtain”

Category:
Past

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. – Maurice Maeterlinck

Category:
Past

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf

Category:
Past

Words of snow, which fell last year. – German saying

Category:
Past

Random Quotes

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Category:
Truth

You have to erect a fence and say, Okay, scale this. – Linda Ronstadt

Category:
Challenges

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Justice

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them? – Jean Baudrillard

Category:
Money