#resent

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time. ↗

— Idries Shah

#beliefs #believe #come #illustrative #in the past

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy. ↗

— William Wilberforce

#eye #false #fill #human #human eye

I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them. ↗

— Daniel Smith

#artist #before #believe #best #creativity

I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love. ↗

— Meg Rosoff

#love #past #present #age

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#design #future #happiness #postpone #present

But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#dark-bird #life #present #life

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was. ↗

— Leopold Von Ranke

#contemporary #contemporary world #does #future #high

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics. ↗

— George Reisman

#clearest #competition #economic #economics #evidence

By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#could #curve #differences #events #formed

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it? ↗

— David Riesman

#america #ask #create #fantastic #fraud