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“The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.”

Past Society Pregnant Saturated

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.”

Men May Past Society Danger Future Anger Slave Sane Robots Meaningless Life

Author:Erich Fromm

“The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.”

Humans Has Beens Age Past Race Vision Failing Society Century Human Nature Goodness Noble Doctrine Golden Human Race Mischief Whim Golden Age

Author:Jacob Burckhardt

“Once again a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and heralds the advent of the next phase of our evolution. It is the idea of conscious evolution.”

Source: Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential

“A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.”

Past Society Refined Reproducing

Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future”

Ifs Past Humanity Economy Society Economic Mankind Future Capitalism Economics Future Generation Past Present Future

Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.”

Life Feels Eye Past Spirit Society Building Reflection Mirrors Casts Architecture

Author:I. M. Pei

“Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades”

Government Past Form Society Prison Investment Decades Jail Ironic Housing Over The Past Public Housing

Author:Marc Lamont Hill

“The chief difference [between totalitarian and free countries] is that only the totalitarians appear clearly to know how they want to achieve that result, while the free world has only its past achievements to show, being by its very nature unable to offer any detailed "plan" for further growth.”

Knows World Want Country Shows Past Growth Differences Results Know How Plans Society Achieve Offers Achievement Chiefs Free World Free Country

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind. Nor think I that God's world would fall apart Because we tear a parchment more or less. Truth is eternal, but her effluence, With endless change, is fitted to the hour; Her mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past. I do not fear to follow out the truth.”

Thinking World Past Fall Hours Society Mankind Tears Promise Truth Is Eternal Mirrors Instinct Endless Dread Falling Apart Rotten Ripe Do Not Fear Promise Of The Future

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to change. Much of what was repulsive 100 years ago is normal today, and - although it may be a slippery slope - what is repulsive today is possible to be normal 100 years into tomorrow; the human standard has always been but to push the envelope. In this way, all generations are linked, and one can only hope that every extremist, self-proclaimed progressive is considering this ultimate 'Utopia' to which his kindness will lead at the end of the chain.”

Source: Healology