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

—C.S. Lewis, 1941

Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.

—Janis Joplin, 1972

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

—Walt Whitman, 1856

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

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

—Albert Camus, 1951

It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.

—Francis Bacon, 1620

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

Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.

—Leonard Cohen, 1992

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1732

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.

—Voltaire, 1764