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Future Quotes by David Hume
- If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.
- ..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they…
- It seems then, say I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can justly be jealous…
- He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must immediately…
- The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.
- ..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience; and…
More Future Quotes
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov
- People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic… — David Attenborough
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. — Dean Acheson
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today… — Marcus Aurelius
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
- Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but… — Marcus Aurelius
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba