Quotes of Retrospective - somelinesforyou

“ It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness. ”

- Robert G. Menzies

“ Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion. ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ Very frequently, feminine activity also expresses itself in what is largely a retrospectively oriented pondering over what we ought to have done differently in life, and how we ought to have done it; or, as if under compulsion, we make up strings of causal connections… ”

- Emma Jung
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