Future State Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had…
— Benjamin Rush
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..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…
— David Hume
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The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning until today, and…
— Horace-Benedict de Saussure
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There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second…
— John Quincy Adams
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The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him for all our…
— Joseph Story
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It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent the future, we…
— James M. Kouzes
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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…
— David Hume
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A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some…
— David Brainerd
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Achieving sustainable ways of living is inextricably linked to how we organize work in the future. State of the World 2014 makes an important contribution…
— Sharan Burrow
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The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of…
— Edward Gibbon
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How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we may…
— Joseph Priestley
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Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble,…
— Erasmus Darwin
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In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with…
— Matthew Arnold
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I am constrained to express my adoration of the Supreme Being, the Author of my existence, in full belief of His providential goodness and His…
— Robert Treat Paine
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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the…
— Blaise Pascal
Who Wrote These Future State Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Future State Quotes as follows: