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Arguments for and against an independent flow of time have been raised since antiquity, represented by fatalism, reductionism, and Platonism: Classical fatalism argues that every proposition about the future exists, and it is either true or false, hence there is a set of every true proposition about the future, which means these propositions describe the future exactly as it is, and this ...
In honor of Reader’s Digest’s 100th anniversary, we dug through our archives to find some of the best quotes from famous people over the past 100 years. The dates in parentheses are when they ...
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Deep anxiety quotes “Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. ― Eckhart Tolle
"What is past is prologue", inscribed on Present (1935, Robert Aitken) located on the northeast corner of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC "What's past is prologue" is a quotation of William Shakespeare from his play The Tempest. In contemporary use, the phrase stands for the idea that history sets the context for the present.
English mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead quotes Santayana extensively in his magnum opus Process and Reality (1929). [ 28 ] Chuck Jones used Santayana's description of fanaticism as "redoubling your effort after you've forgotten your aim" to describe his cartoons starring Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner .
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Between Past and Future was published for the first time in 1961 by The Viking Press in the United States and by Faber and Faber in Great Britain. The first edition consisted of six essays, and two more were added to a 1968 revision. The book is a collection of various essays written between 1954 and 1968.