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Every passing year brings us more past futures.
Sep 29, 2025
One faces the future with one's past.
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Wisely improve the Present. It is thine.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Every passing year brings us more past futures. Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin. It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.
Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Let go of the past and go for the future.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.
Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and creative can come into this world except through that gap, that clear space of infinite possibility.
The past does not equal the future.
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.
Learn from yesterday, live for today.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...
He who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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