Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present which seldom happens to us.
Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.
It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.
To act is to anchor in an imminent future so imminent it becomes almost tangible to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.
What does the future that half of time matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?