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1890·Cambridge, Massachusetts
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
My experience is what I agree to attend to.
I think that yesterday was a crisis in my life. I finished the first part of Renouvier's second Essais and see no reason why his definition of free will—"the sustaining of a thought because I choose to when I might have other thoughts"—need be the definition of an illusion. At any rate, I will assume for the present—until next year—that it is no illusion. My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
Augustine of Hippo·398 ADThe present of things past is memory; the present of things present is sight; and the present of things future is expectation.
T.S. Eliot·1936Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future, and time future contained in time past.
Marcus Aurelius·180 ADRemember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.
