Source: A Moon for the Misbegotten
“Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.”
La philosophie triomphe aisément des maux passés et des maux à venir. Mais les maux présents triomphent d'elle.
Maxim 22. Compare: "This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey", Oliver Goldsmith, The Good-Natured Man, Act i.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Inner Freedom: A Spiritual Journey for Prison Inmates (2008)
On Eagle's Wings, 1977, p. 159
As of a Trumpet, On Eagle's Wings
“Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?”
Source: Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Saphira
Source: Eldest (2005)
“You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.”
Variant: The good news is that you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you havce no control over my future. You don't know me at all.
Source: You Don't Know Me
“To quarrel over the past is to lose the future.”
Speech to the National Association of Broadcasters, May 9, 1961 (the Wasteland Speech)
Source: A Living Nightmare
