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As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

—Charles Darwin, 1859

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

—Albert Camus, 1951

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

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

—C.S. Lewis, 1941

My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

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

—Paul Valéry, 1931

The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

—Sigmund Freud, 1927

The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.

—George Moore, 1888

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

—Ray Bradbury, 1992

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1893

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC