“The past, the present,
And the future,
Are all side by side,
Hand in hand”
Kate Havnevik (1975) Norwegian singer-songwriter
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“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
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Marcel Pagnol (1895–1974) novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France
Variant: People see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is and the future less resolved than it’ll be.
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"The Genealogy of Animals", p. 85
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“Past is dead
Future is uncertain;
Present is all you have,
So eat, drink and live merry.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943) British historian and philosopher
Source: "Some Perplexities about time: with an attempted solution" (1925), p. 149. as cited in: Jonathan Gorman, "The transmission of our understanding of historical time." Historia Social y de la Educación 1.2 (2012): 129-152.
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Thích Nhất Hạnh here quotes and interprets the "Ten Penetrations" of the Avatamsaka Sutra
The Sun My Heart (1996)
Context: The tenth penetration is, "All times penetrate one time. One time penetrates all times — past, present, and future. In one second, you can find the past, present, and future." In the past, you can see the present and the future. In the present, you can find the past and future. In the future, you can find the past and present. They "inter-contain" each other. Space contains time, time contains space. In the teaching of interpenetration, one determines the other, the other determines this one. When we realize our nature of interbeing, we will stop blaming and killing, because we know that we inter-are.
“The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
What Is Religion? (1899) is Ingersoll's last public address, delivered before the American Free Religious association, Boston, June 2, 1899. Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Dresden Memorial Edition Volume IV, pages 477-508, edited by Cliff Walker. http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/ingwhatrel.htm <br class="br">Variant: The present is the child, and the necessary child, of all the past, and the mother of all the future.
“I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future.”
Rachel Carson (1907–1964) American marine biologist and conservationist
Preface to Humane Biology Projects (1961) by the Animal Welfare Institute
Context: I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.