Present Quotes
Lines about the moment we're actually in.
This topic pulls from unexpected places, including a dense explanation of the uncertainty principle in quantum theory and a much simpler, more poetic image comparing the present to something hatched from the past, carrying the future inside it.
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail.
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It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before...
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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how much a new financial product would save a user given their present financial situation.
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
Moment Quotes
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun.
In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
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The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.
The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.
Past Quotes
The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.
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A separate quote looks back at painters from the Bauhaus era, noting how estranged they had become from what was currently happening around them, their sway now holding artists back rather than lifting them up. For nearby themes, see our moment quotes and past quotes.
