I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.
The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now.
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.