Presents Quotes

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it.