(2) The future is partly knowable for man: thinking back = … - Fred Polak

" "
(2) The future is partly knowable for man: thinking back = thinking forward;

Fred Polak

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Fred Polak

Frederik Lodewijk Polak (May 21, 1907 – September 17, 1985) was a Dutch sociologist, politician and futurist. He was one of the Dutch founding fathers of futures studies, perhaps best known in the field for theorising the central role of imagined alternative futures in his classic work The Image of the Future.

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Fred Lodewijk Polak • Frederik Lodewijk Polak • Fred L. Polak

All quotes from Fred Polak Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Fred Polak:

John Dewey Vera Stanley Alder Roberto Mangabeira Unger Kenneth E. Boulding Marilyn Ferguson

Additional quotes by Fred Polak

Awareness of ideal values is the first step in the conscious creation of images of the future... for a value is by definition that which guides a ‘valued’ future.

(3) Anyone who ponders the future will learn that this is still open to a considerable extent that can be further determined from case to case...

My own philosophical position, if I may put it that way, is very briefly as follows:

(2) The future is partly knowable for man: thinking back = thinking forward; - Fred Polak

About Fred Polak

Also Known As

Additional quotes by Fred Polak