Our Present Quotes

228 quotes by 198 authors

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. — Mikhail Bakunin
All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by… — David R. Brower
The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted. — Chester W. Nimitz
Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best… — Abraham Lincoln
Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now. — Sylvia Earle
We are living in a very exciting and powerful time. On the deepest level of consciousness, a radical spiritual transformation is taking place. I believe… — Shakti Gawain
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of… — William James
Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from… — Isaac Newton
Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious… — Jerome K. Jerome
Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree,… — Thomas Jefferson
A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity… — Lyndon B. Johnson
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product… — Edwin Howard Armstrong
My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which elude… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is… — Auguste Comte
Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as… — John Fowles
Through the fall our nature was stripped of divine illumination and resplendence. But the Logos of God had pity upon our disfigurement, and in His… — Gregory Palamas
Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our ecologic crisis can… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy… — William J. Clinton

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