Hartnäckig / Persistent Illusion Nur / Only Unterscheidung / Distinction Vergangenheit / Past Vorhanden / Present Zukunft / Future Zwischen / Between
Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
There are distinctions between Indian and Pakistani writers.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.
Who controls the present controls the past. There's a power structure, if you like, between the present and the past and the future, and that's what I'm interested in.