16 Quotes Tagged: the-future

There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.

Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds.

May I whisper in your ear
from my heart so you'll clearly hear.
There are people so dear…
They're like children…
Naked in a cold world…
Beautiful children
In an old world.

May I take you away
from the evils of today
to the dreams of tomorrow?
You know that Heaven
has no sorrow.
We know that Heaven
has no tomorrow.
Hear the sound of the magic drums…
Hearts are beating for the Sun,
Sending Evil on the run.
Now watch the wind…

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or exotic aspect.

You have every cause for anxiety. We are on the threshold of a more searching, more honest, more open society.

America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do.

These are the days when, however simple the future, we do not go
towards it but leave part of life in a lobby whose elevators
divide and enclose us, brightening digits that show

exactly where we are headed, while a young Polish woman
is emptying an ashtray, and we are drawn to a window
whose strings, if we pull them, widen an emptiness.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday — we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.

You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don't have to justif your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts.

You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you've got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.

Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source from which may be drawn a life more successful, more knowing than our own. Somehow they will do one thing, take one step further, they will see the summit. We believe in it, the radiance that streams from the future, from days we will not see. Children must live, must triumph. Children must die; that is an idea we cannot accept.

One of these days the future will be here, and you won't be ready for it.

We have reached the end of one era, and now we don't know what is all around us. Because we're already in a new era, and it is very different from the old one. Science and the world of technology are both changing everything so quickly, even our bodies. So the original ancient culture was present here, but to no avail, at this point in history it has come to stop. It still has some effect, some kind of continuity, but it cannot analyse and reformulate things, it cannot impact things with absolute strength. The age to follow will be full of dangers. It will be full of difficulties. In all likelihood, it will not be a good future for mankind. It is even possible this new era will mean the end of mankind.