The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay.
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.
The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.