Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
Robin HobbStichwörter: present philosophy fate today tomorrow poison longing
Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston S. ChurchillStichwörter: past future present quarrel
We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be able to comprehend in one single formula the motions of the largest bodies as well as the lightest atoms in the world, provided that its intellect were sufficiently powerful to subject all data to analysis; to it nothing would be uncertain, the future as well as the past would be present to its eyes. The perfection that the human mind has been able to give to astronomy affords but a feeble outline of such an intelligence.
Pierre-Simon LaplaceStichwörter: science intelligence certainty past present determinism free-will nature time mind universe naturalism space physics comprehension eyes perfection astronomy omniscience data human-mind motion analysis formula lack-of-free-will
She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.
Dave EggersStichwörter: life past present regret journal problematic
He [Abram] believes that the PRESENT is the only real thing and everything else is an illusion
a distraction
Stichwörter: life inspirational present distraction
Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.
Siri HustvedtStichwörter: present story storytelling memory
The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.
Siri HustvedtStichwörter: imagination past present memory
If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or to retreat. Perhaps it is its perpetual ambivalence that is its secret charm. Somewhere between Preservation Hall and the Superdome, between voodoo and cybernetics, New Orleans listens eagerly to the seductive promises of the future but keeps at least one foot firmly planted in its history, and in the end, conforms, like an artist, not to the world but to its own inner being--ever mindful of its personal style.
Tom RobbinsStichwörter: past future present history time conformity new-orleans artistry timelessness mainstream
Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?
Mary BaloghStichwörter: past future present
Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain.
Mary BaloghStichwörter: future present pain
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