T Quotes
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“The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.”
“The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.”
Source: The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition
“The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,--in degree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter madness.”
“The present order is the disorder of the future.”
Source: Ian Hamilton Finlay: Selections
“The present Popina loved most of all,
was the blanket she got from her Uncle Paul.
It was green as the grass and soft as a sigh,
as fluffy as a cloud that floats in the sky.
Carrying it around was such a pleasure,
the little blanket was Popina's treasure.”
Source: Popina & Slumberina
“The present rate of progress [in X-ray crystallography] is determined, not so much by the lack of problems to investigate or the limited power of X-ray analysis, as by the restricted number of investigators who have had a training in the technique of the new science, and by the time it naturally takes for its scientific and technical importance to become widely appreciated.”
“The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are.”
Source: The Faraway Nearby
“The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.”
“The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more than a remnant of the old leaven of slavery. It is necessarily destructive of refined love; for how can a man continue to regard as his type of the ideal a being whom he has, be denying an equality of privilege with himself, degraded to something below himself?”
Source: An Autobiography: By Herbert Spencer
“The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any.If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned - would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.”
Source: Bleak House
“The present school-house stands in an open place beside the main road to Muirtown, treeless and comfortless, built of red, staring stone, with a playground for the boys and another for the girls, and a trim, smug-looking teacher's house, all very neat and symmetrical and well-regulated... It has pitch-pine benches and map-cases, and a thermometer to be kept at not less than 58 degrees and not more than 62 degrees, and ventilators which the Inspector is careful to examine.”
Source: Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
“The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.”
“The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.”
Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“The present state of a single substance is the natural result of its precedent state, so much so that the present is pregnant with the future.”
Source: Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays
“The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.”
Source: The Periodic System (1920-1923)
“The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.”
“The present Stimulus Bill sets up the equivalent commission in the United States similar to that which is in England.”
“The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.”
“The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.”
“The present syllabus in our high schools corresponds almost exactly to what was known in 1640.”
“The present system is a capitalist system. This means that the world is divided up into two antagonistic camps, the camp of a small handful of capitalists and the camp of the majority - the proletarians. The proletarians work day and night, nevertheless they remain poor. The capitalists do not work, nevertheless they are rich. This takes place not because the proletarians are unintelligent and the capitalists are geniuses, but because the capitalists appropriate the fruit of the labour of the proletarians, because the capitalists exploit the proletarians. Why is the fruit of the labour of the proletarians appropriated by the capitalists and not by the proletarians? Why do the capitalists exploit the proletarians and not vice versa? Because the capitalist system is based on commodity production: here everything assumes the form of a commodity, everywhere the principle of buying and selling prevails. Here you can buy not only articles of consumption, not only food products, but also the labour power of men, their blood and their consciousness. The capitalists know all of this and purchase the labour power of the proletarians, they hire them. This means the capitalists become the owners of the labour power they buy. The proletarians, however, lose their right to the labour power which they have sold. That is to say, what is produced by that labour power no longer belongs to the proletarians, it belongs only to the capitalists and goes into their pockets. The labour power which you have sold may produce in the course of a day, goods to the value of 100 rubles, but that is not your business, those goods do not belong to you, it is the business only of the capitalists, and the goods belong to them - all that you must receive is your daily wage which, perhaps, may be sufficient to satisfy your essential needs if, of course, you live frugally.”
Source: Anarchism or Socialism?
“The present system is unsustainable. The only question is whether we will master the change or it will master us.”
“The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.”
“The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.”
Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety or the impossibility of his becoming white... the Negros will have no outlet but to go down a blind alley, if the sort of education which they are now receiving is to enable them to find the way out of their present difficulties.”
“The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax avoidance rather than market factors a prime consideration in too many economic decisions.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963
“The present tense made him nervous.”
Source: Neuromancer
“The present tense of regret is indecision.”
“The present,
the presence:
a present.”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“The present, the present. It never stops, no matter how weary you get. It comes unstintingly, as a river does, and if you aren't careful, you'll be swept off your feet.”
“The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.
“The present (time) is a very subtle thing. On one side there is the past and on the other side there is the future, and in the middle of this, in the subtle part, lies the present. It cannot be grasped by one who is ignorant of the Self (agnani), only a a Self-realized being (Gnani) can grasp it.”
Source: Pratikraman
“The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.”
“The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.”
Source: The Writings of Christopher Gadsden, 1746-1805
“The present treatments for brain cancer are not curative. We need new and better treatments. More funding for research. Legislation to improve the research system and to provide better access to care, treatment, and rehabilitation services for all brain tumor survivors.”
“The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.”
“The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human and other-than-human components.”
Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future
“The present value of your presence to your loved ones in need is higher than the future value of your promises.”
Source: Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts
“The Present Vocabulary
certain obligations blocks my perception
another dimension a vision without alteration
without wall of illusion blocking my perception
forget the presentations
no prescription or medication
in the creation phase I but all my emotions
no intention to tell you about my mistakes
pass I represent the present vocabulary
be indulgent
learn from your mistakes
of your misfortune
and obliterate your fear
be indulgent
to guard what is being dissipated
is impossible
if you do not want to sink you must learn to swim and take strength
because his world and become far too fierce
I have no intention of being for you a recreation
attention to any division of concentration
as a vision of illusion
the exclusion of all perceptions of emotions
without any understanding of good and bad intentions
concentration mode,
watch out for reverberation,
bad reaction,
a pawn you want action,
go back do your preparation
without any interaction
no need for explanation
no need for presentations
no prescription or medication
in the creation phase I but all my emotions
all these voices
a place of disarray
in the middle of all these voices
the fights
are without faith or law
in the middle of all these voices
no odds to escape and auctanperer you can forget
my mind and there to create
prisoner never
I'm here to show you
with the thinking of passing moments
and the vocabulary of the present moment
for a decent future
absent not writing
insistent
on days much more clement
for my present
and
the mind filled with writing
he is not stupid
by technology
Develop my thoughts
often full of words store
no time to rest
I will not give up
no prescription or medication
in the creation phase I but all my emotions
enclose between two dimensions
no need for presentation
or tell you about my intentions
errors are passed
and now
I represent the vocabulary present.”
“The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.”
Source: The Complete Stories
“The present was better. Much, much better. Humans had coffee now. And gelato.”
Source: Ecstasy Unveiled: Number 4 in series
“the present Western civilization ... is dominated by the extravert viewpoint. There are plenty of reasons for this domination: extraverts are more vocal than introverts; they are more numerous, apparently in the ratio of three to one; and they are accessible and understandable, whereas the introverts are not readily understandable, even to each other, and are likely to be thoroughly incomprehensible to the extraverts.”
Source: Gifts differing: understanding personality type
“The present will not long endure.”
“The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past.”
“The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“The Present, the Present is all thou hast
For thy sure possessing;
Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast
Till it gives its blessing.”
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe.”
Source: Illuminations
“The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and shocking language, from what I hear, is leaving the public jaded and tired of this kind of film.”