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, 1859Quotes
Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCLittle folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCPeople will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCI’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972