Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Quotes
Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCI’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCNot 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, 1884Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCPeople will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931