Present State Quotes

Communism … is not a stale state …. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future.

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.

All of the characters on 'Doom Patrol' explore traumatic pasts, how to deal with those pasts, and how that affects their present and their future.

The present is never a happy state to any human being.

Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present - and that's not fully valued.

The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.

I do not like Melbourne in its present state.

The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

And what are they doing now?

The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes.

A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view and yet modifies it as conditions develop. The aim, in short, is experimental, and hence constantly growing as it is tested in action.

Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.

Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.