Source: 1990s, Re-Creating the Corporation (1999), p. 133.
Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 13: Requisites for Social Progress.
“If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.”
2010-, Ai Weiwei: ‘Shame on Me.’, 2011
“Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.”
Source: Unbelievable
“There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.”
"On Sir John A. Macdonald" Toronto Star (October 9, 1964)
“The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.”
2 June 1824
Table Talk (1821–1834)
“The past has ended its time, the present is the moment, the future the becoming.”
Original: (it) Il passato ha concluso il suo tempo, il presente è l'attimo, il futuro il divenire.
Source: prevale.net
Source: Le premier siècle après Béatrice
Transhumanism (1957)
Context: As a result of a thousand million years of evolution, the universe is becoming conscious of itself, able to understand something of its past history and its possible future. This cosmic self-awareness is being realized in one tiny fragment of the universe — in a few of us human beings. Perhaps it has been realized elsewhere too, through the evolution of conscious living creatures on the planets of other stars. But on this our planet, it has never happened before.
“I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.”
Source: Unbought and Unbossed (1970), p. 175.
