Quotes by Philosophers - Page 8

We can see well into the past we can guess shrewdly in to the future but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden too can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.
Marcus Aurelius
Everyman's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with and the future is uncertain.
Marcus Aurelius
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind those of the past and future as well.
Epicurus
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present which seldom happens to us.
Jean de La Bruyère
With the past I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This-the immediate everyday and present experience-is IT the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.
Alan Watts
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
Simone de Beauvoir
Today Relative to Yesterday or Tomorrow The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
Simone Weil
The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past and it is the future.
Alfred North Whitehead
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past present and future.
Susan Sontag
He who lives in the present lives in eternity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The present is the living sum-total of the whole past.
Thomas Carlyle
Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
Will Durant
Seize the day and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
Horace
The past is one evil less and one memory more.
Elbert Hubbard
Yesterday I lived today I suffer tomorrow I die but I still think fondly today and tomorrow of yesterday.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Respect the past in the full measure of its deserts but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Jose Ingenieros
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear endearing touching precious. At least the past is safe-though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past because we have survived.
Susan Sontag
How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
Alfred North Whitehead
You cannot step twice into the same river for other waters are continually flowing on.
Heraclitus
The past will not tell us what we ought to do but... what we ought to avoid.
José Ortega y Gasset
When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.
Rudolph Steiner
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward.
Søren Kierkegaard
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
Alfred North Whitehead
Only sick music makes money today.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Oh what times! Oh what standards!
Cicero
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past according to his interest in the present.
George Santayana
Discipline does not mean suppression and control nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to shut it again on something solid.
G.K. Chesterton
What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.
Aldous Huxley
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Plato
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind those of the past and future as well as the present.
Epicurus
Curiosity is a lust of the mind.
Thomas Hobbes
Of all modern notions the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home they say is dead decorum and routine outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.
G.K. Chesterton
I am not absent-minded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
G.K. Chesterton
If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man builds a fine house and now he has a master and a task for life is to furnish watch show it and keep it in repair the rest of his life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
Simone Weil
He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank he lives in impersonality he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic because it is a people. The future is despotic because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction just as each man is alone in a dream.
G.K. Chesterton
You cannot plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
To the being of fully alive the future is not ominous but a promise it surrounds the present like a halo.
John Dewey
The future is hope!
John Fiske
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
Bernard de Fontenelle
Cease to inquire what the future has in store and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Horace
One must care about a world one will not see.
Bertrand Russell
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it if you have to with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius
Upper classes are a nation's past the middle-class is its future.
Ayn Rand
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Aristotle
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.
Albert Camus
City life - millions of people being lonesome together.
Henry David Thoreau
Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining but they make them artificial.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.
Benjamin Whichcote
The total absence of humour in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North Whitehead