Present Quotes
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.
There's no other time but the present. Anything else is a waste of time.
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.
Man, like every other animal, has no doubt advanced to his present high condition through a struggle for existence consequent on his multiplication; and if he is to advance still higher, it is to be feared that he must remain subject to a severe struggle.
All that at present can be said with certainty, is that, as with the individual, so with the species, the hour of life has run its course, ans is spent.
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present.
The future depends on what we do in the present.
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present, God has given me no control over the moment following.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.
The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent.
In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.
What is our present condition? We have just carried an election on principles fairly stated to the people. Now we are told in advance, the government shall be broken up, unless we surrender to those we have beaten, before we take the offices.
Is he [youth] not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?
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