Open Future Quotes

Everything is possible in this life.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free.