Famous Quotes

"If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe."

Simone Weil on Future

More quotes about Future

• "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

  Winston Churchill on Future

• "Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."

  Oscar Wilde on Future

• "Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

  Steve Jobs on Future

• "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

  Albert Einstein on Future

• "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

  William Shakespeare on Future

More quotes by Simone Weil

• "We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him."

• "To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."

• "Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."

• "Beauty always promises, but never gives anything."

• "Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace."