Quotes About Present

What is required of philosophical research is that it be a critique of the present. In disclosing the past in an original manner, the past is no longer seen to be merely a present that preceded our own present. Rather, it is possible to emancipate the past so that we can find in it the authentic roots of our existence and bring it into our own present as a vital force. Historical consciousness liberates the past for the future, and it is then that the past gains force and becomes productive.

Your mind lives in fear and regret but your body can only live right now, in this moment. So, take some deep breaths and live in your body. It's a safer place to be than in your head.

A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys.

Thoughts of different species take wing and play round one another, responding to each other's movements and provoking one another to fresh exertions. Nobody asks where they have come from or on what authority they are present; nobody cares what will become of them when they have played their part.

An ideal society, properly so-called, can be none other than an actual, present, society taken at its truest and best.

This again was the curious thing about Ambrosio, his willingness to live fully inside the moment, whatever its virtue or folly, without regard for the future.

Our task in life consists precisely in a form of letting go of fear and expectations, an attempt to purely give oneself to the impact of the present.

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

The promise given was necessity of the past: the word borken is a necessity of the present" -Niccolo Machiavelli

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present'?

From the vantage point of the present, the prize promised by the idea of progress can look less like an achievement than an affront.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.

We feel nostalgia for a place simply because we've lived there; whether we lived well or badly scarcely matters. The past is always beautiful. So, for that matter, is the future. Only the present hurts, and we carry it around like an abscess of suffering, our companion between two infinities of happiness and peace.

We feel nostalgia for a place simply because we've lived there; whether we lived well or badly scarcely matters. The past is always beautiful. So, for that matter, is the future. Only the present hurts, and we carry it around like an abscess of suffering, our companion between two infinities of happiness and peace. Gradually

Heimwee heeft niets met esthetisch gevoel te maken, het is ook niet eens verbonden met een gelukkige herinnering, je hebt heimwee naar een plaats om de eenvoudige reden dat je er hebt gewoond, of je het er nu goed of slecht hebt gehad, het verleden is altijd mooi, en de toekomst trouwens ook, alleen het heden doet pijn, je draagt het met je mee als een lijdensgezwel dat je altijd vergezelt tussen twee oneindigheden van vredig geluk.

la nostalgia no es un sentimiento estético, ni siquiera está ligada al recuerdo de la felicidad, se siente nostalgia de un lugar simplemente porque uno ha vivido allí, poco importa si bien o mal, el pasado siempre es bonito, y también el futuro, sólo duele el presente y cargamos con él como un absceso de sufrimiento que nos acompaña entre dos infinitos de apacible felicidad.

La nostalgia no es un sentimiento estético, ni siquiera está ligada al recuerdo de la felicidad, se siente nostalgia de un lugar simplemente porque uno ha vivido ahí, poco importa si bien o mal; el pasado siempre es bonito, y también el futuro, solo duele el presente y cargamos con él como un absceso de sufrimiento que nos acompaña entre dos infinitos de apacible felicidad

De toutes ses forces (qui furent grandes), la littérature s'oppose à la notion d'actualité permanente, de perpétuel présent. Les livres appellent des lecteurs; mais ces lecteurs doivent avoir une existence individuelle et stable : ils ne peuvent être de purs consommateurs, de purs fantômes; ils doivent être aussi, en quelque manière, des sujets.

passé est toujours beau, et le futur aussi d'ailleurs, il n'y a que le présent qui fasse mal, qu'on transporte avec soi comme un abcès de souffrance qui vous accompagne entre deux infinis de bonheur paisible.

le passé est toujours beau, et le futur aussi d'ailleurs, il n'y a que le présent qui fasse mal, qu'on transporte avec soi comme un abcès de souffrance qui vous accompagne entre deux infinis de bonheur paisible.

The past is always beautiful. So, for that matter, is the future. Only the present hurts, and we carry it around like an abscess of suffering, our companion between two infinities of happiness and peace.

Devaluar el pasado y el presente en beneficio del futuro, devaluar lo real para preferir una virtualidad situada en un futuro incierto, son síntomas del nihilismo europeo mucho más decisivos que todo los que Nietzsche pudo detectar;