T Quotes
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“The present is an eternal now.”
“The present is an eternity.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“The present is an intangible moment squeezed in between a growing past and an approaching future. Therefore, perceptual truths are, at best, an inconceivably fleeting part of the experience of life. The bulk of life consists of internal myths.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.”
Source: The monadology and other philosophical writings
“The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
“The present is burthened too much with the past.”
“The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.”
Source: Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God
“The present is elastic to embrace infinity.”
“The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on.”
“The present is forever fleeting; just as such debilitating circumstances and feelings enter our lives, they will soon be gone.”
“The present is great with the future.”
“The present is never a happy state to any human being.”
“The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.”
“The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.”
Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Curious Subjects
“The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.”
Source: Mole Philosophy & Other Essays
“The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.”
Source: The Scarlet Pimpernel
“The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.”
Source: English, Past and Present: Five Lectures
“The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present.”
Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction
“The present is our future past, we've gotta make this moment last”
“The present is our own; but while we speak,
We cease from its possession, and resign
The stage we tread on, to another race,
As vain, and gay, and mortal as ourselves.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931
“The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there. Enjoy the moment, even if it means merely a walk in the country.”
Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA
“The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.”
“The present is the equilibrium of the past and the future. (Le présent, c'est l'équilibre - Du passé et du futur)”
“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”
Source: 1949-1959
“The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.”
“The present is the key that we have to the future. Today is the future that we changed yesterday.”
Source: Be a Change Agent: Leadership in a Time of Exponential Change
“The present is the key to the past”
Source: The Geological Evidence of Man
“The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.”
Source: Carlyle Reader
“the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.”
“The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“The present is the only reality and the only certainty.”
“The present is the only thing that has no end.”
“The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.”
“The present is the past biting into the future.”
“The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.”
Source: The Lessons of History
“The present is the place to live, the past is to fade, and the future is to dream. Become weird, unique, and different - don't follow the crowd. A successful life is defined by living the life you desire.”
“The present is the point of power.”
“The Present is the womb of the future.
A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly.
Look after the present and the future will look after itself.”
“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
Source: Nikola Tesla Quotes... Vol. 3: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Nikola Tesla
“The present is too often squandered grieving the past or fearing the future, which makes the present nothing more than a cheap facsimile of what was or what will be instead of what it could be.”
Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
“The present is what is, the past is what was, and the future is what will be.”
“The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.”
“The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future”
Source: The healers: a novel
“The present issues from the past, and the future from the present. Everything is made one by this continuity. Time is like a circle, where all the points are so linked that one cannot say where it begins or ends, for all points precede and follow one another for ever.”
Source: Corpus Hermeticum
“The present: It is interesting that the “NOW" is called "the present.” The present is the ultimate gift; it is the gift of truth and life. You are given the present every second, and you will receive it forever. The present is the only thing that exists, the only thing you are ever conscious of. Your life is a series of presents moving through time. The future does not exist until it becomes the present.
Life is one perpetual present.
Creation is happening now: Your body, mind, and the world around it are being created from microsecond to microsecond. Things may look the same, but they are not; everything is constantly changing and being recreated. Our life and our world is being created from moment to moment.
Life and everything in it is always new.”
“The present joys of life we doubly taste,
By looking back with pleasure to the past.”
“The present leans toward referencing itself. History references everything.”
Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.”
Source: The Provincial Letters of Blaise Pascal
“The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.”
“The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the green movement's high-amplitude warnings over GMOs turn out to be empty, people will be dangerously disinclined to listen to other and more serious warnings.”
Source: A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings