There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
We are speaking on this occasion, not as members of this or that nation, continent, or creed, but as human beings, members of the species Man, whose continued existence is in doubt.
The mysterious way leads inwards. Eternity with its worlds — the past and future — is in ourselves or nowhere.
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
The future is the worst thing about the present.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
