Collections of this Kind

Foundations

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.
Augustine of Hippo (c.397) Confessions, Book 11.

...as the judgment grows Ripe, those Things are despis'd which before were had in esteem. Yet it is of Service to have Collections of this Kind, both that Students may learn, the Art of putting Things in Order, as also the better retain what they Read.
John Locke (1706) A new method of making common-place-books. Greenwood, p.iii.

How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe.
John Aubrey (1693) Brief Lives.

During my rutting season I keep all my valves open and throw the whole stench of my soul in people's faces. In this way I bring about the salvation of my contempories and all future generations.
Otto Muehl, quoted by Hubert Klocker (2012) Vienna Actionism. König, p.378.