Retrospective Quotes
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Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
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I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
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As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective.
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Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night.
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You pick up very well-known books on Lincoln and you will find almost no reference to his long-term belief in colonization. Why? Because it doesn't fit the image of the Great Emancipator. It doesn't fit the retrospective view we want to have of Lincoln as the man who was the moralist in politics, who came into office committed to ending slavery and waited to sign this document.
