Bigs Quote by Gottfried Leibniz

“Only through the unification of time and space is there matter, i.e. the possibility of simultaneity, and through that, duration, and again through these,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

— Aristotle

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Moreover, we must look upon what is to occur as having already occurred, and see nothing but the present in the future, for the…

— Doma Publishing House

“A state without the means of some change, is without the means of its own conservation.”

— Edmund Burke

The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which…

— Anthony Storr

The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond ones reach, until it becomes…

— Unkown

“Present effects are due to karmic causes from the past. However, future effects arise from the causes we make in the present. It is…

— Daisaku Ikeda

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

— Swami Vivekananda

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of…

— Pema Chodron

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

— Haruki Murakami