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
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCThe future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927The 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, 1888I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BC