As quoted in Serious Wonder (22 June 2015). "A conversation on cyborgism" http://www.seriouswonder.com/a-conversation-on-cyborgism-interview-with-u-k-cyborg-neil-harbisson/
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
Variant: It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
Source: Dune
“Cricket is no excuse for ignorance.”
Novel, Raffles of the MCC (1979)
“Avoid the past, live the present, anticipate the future.”
Original: (it) Evita il passato, vivi il presente, anticipa il futuro.
Source: prevale.net
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, p. 270.
Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
Context: To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
“I'm living in the future so the present is my past.
My presence is a present, kiss my ass.”
Monster
Lyrics, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
“Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.”
As quoted in Eternal Greece (1961) by Rex Warner, p. 34
Context: Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.
“Was living together a step toward the future or just a way to continue the present?”
Gabby Holland, Chapter 5, p. 58
2000s, The Choice (2007)
