Quotes About Future

You have been educated in judgment, which is the essence of worship. Judgment always occurs in the past. It is past-thinking. Will, free or otherwise, is concerned with the future. Thinking is the performance of the moment, out of which you use your judgment to modulate will. You are a convection center through which past prepares future. —Dwarf MacIntosh, Kelpmaster, from Conversations with the Avata

Las posturas necesarias te impiden adaptarte. Inevitablemente, crecen de forma inestable, inclinándose e inclinándose en un ángulo cada vez más acusado hasta que terminan derrumbándose. Es como los banqueros pensando que compran el futuro. «¡El poder en mi tiempo!» «¡Al diablo con mis descendientes!»

The present is distraction; the future a dream; only memory can unlock the meaning of life.

Moneo has discovered it is pointless to live in the past, impossible to live in the future, and difficult to live in the present.

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. —

Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments.

Descobrimos o futuro no passado e ambos fazem parte de um todo.

Gli storici esercitano un grande potere, e alcuni di loro lo sanno. Essi creano il passato, cambiandolo per adeguarlo alle proprie interpretazioni. Così, cambiano anche il futuro.

Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

Laws convey the myth of enforced change. A bright new future will come because of this law or that one. Laws enforce the future.

He felt anew the hyperillumination with its high-relief imagery of time, sensed his future becoming memories

eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever

We are one life reaching out into a dark future.

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the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.

He knew this was among the alternatives today, a fact along lines of the future radiating from this position in time-space.

Not addressing immediate needs is an offence to the young.

The concept of progress act as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

I assure you that the ability to view our futures can become a bore. Even to be thought of as a god, as I certainly was, can become ultimately boring. It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will. —INSCRIPTION ON THE STOREHOUSE AT DAR-ES-BALAT

I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.

What . . . does he plan?" "The Golden Path. He'll explain it to you later.

Moneo is trapped. He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

You cannot back into the future

You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.