Quotations About / On: FUTURE

  • 41.
    The future is the worst thing about the present.
    (Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French novelist. Trans. by William G. Allen. Pensées de Gustave Flaubert, p. 1, Conard (1915).)
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  • 42.
    The struggle of today, is not altogether for today—it is for a vast future also.
    (Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), U.S. president. annual message to Congress, Dec. 3, 1861. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 5, p. 53, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).)
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  • 43.
    Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
    (Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Idea 27 in Selected Ideas (1799-1800), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).)
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  • 44.
    The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
    (Tristan Tzara (1896-1963), Romanian-born French Dada theorist. repr. In Lampisteries (1963). "Note on Poetry," Dada 4/5 (Zurich, May 1919).)
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  • 45.
    There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
    (Graham Greene (1901-1994), British author. The Power and the Glory, pt. 1, ch. 1 (1940).)
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  • 46.
    A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical.
    (Juliet Mitchell (b. 1940), New Zealand author. "Women—The Longest Revolution," New Left Review (London, Nov./Dec. 1966).)
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  • 47.
    There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
    (Graham Greene (1904-1991), British novelist. The Power and the Glory, pt. 1, ch. 1 (1940).)
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  • 48.
    Choice of you shuts up that peacock-fan
    The future was, in which temptingly spread
    All that elaborative nature can.
    (Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "To My Wife.")
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  • 49.
    Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Lecture, August 31, 1837, delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Harvard University. "The American Scholar," Nature, Addresses and Lectures (1849).)
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  • 50.
    There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
    (Jean Rostand (1894-1977), French biologist, writer. repr. In The Substance of Man (1962). Carnets d'un Biologiste, p. 196.)
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