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Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

—James Russell Lowell, 1884

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

—Albert Camus, 1951

The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

—C.S. Lewis, 1941

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler, 1935

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1732

Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

—Paul Valéry, 1931

All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

—Oscar Wilde, 1893

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

—Ray Bradbury, 1992

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873