Present Quotes

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That 'change makes us uncomfortable' is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and under-considered half-truths around. [I]t is not change by itself… — Robert Kegan
The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present. — Harland Miller
Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at… — Ambrose
Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell… — Arthur Schopenhauer
We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk. — Friedrich Nietzsche
As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past. — Rabindranath Tagore
The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit. — Alexander Hamilton
When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom… — Alexander Hamilton
It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present… — Henry David Thoreau
All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can. — Henry David Thoreau
Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present? — D. H. Lawrence
I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still… — Learned Hand
In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza,… — 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… — Marcus Aurelius
Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series… — Henepola Gunaratana
The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in… — Walker Percy
The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to… — Walker Percy
Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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