Memory Role Quotes

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction. Text subverts the absolutely vital role of memory.

Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?

You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper.

Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

Memory - the very skin of life.

What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds -- this faithful witness against us for good or evil.

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

I believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures