Present Quotes

6568 Present quotes by 3495 unique authors

Some Catholics have a concept I very much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our lives is sacred,… — M. Scott Peck
The most important decision you'll ever make is how to spend the present moment ! — Unknown Author
Present suffering is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is fire, but steel is worth… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere,… — Laozi
I had from childhood not only the experience of love and truth common to all family life, but the idea of them embodied in the… — Joyce Cary
There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each… — Joseph Addison
Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his… — Edward R. Murrow
The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place and cosmos for… — Dolores LaChapelle
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we… — Bertrand Russell
There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made… — Arthur Helps
And the issue is never the merits of the evidence but always the jealous rivalry of the contestants to see which would be the official… — Hugh Nibley
It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is, when tomorrow's burden is added to the… — George MacDonald
If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past — John Hope Franklin
We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those… — Albert Einstein
..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… — David Hume
Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present. — Tryon Edwards
. . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness,… — Laozi
Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in… — Wilhelm Wundt
If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in their… — Wolfgang Kohler
The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance… — Wilhelm Wundt

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