The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation.
Interpretation
The future is filled with possibilities that can influence our present choices and desires.
This quote by Karl Popper suggests that the future is not just a distant timeline but a constant presence in our lives that shapes our thoughts and actions. It emphasizes how the potential of what is to come can motivate us, entice us with dreams, and even distract us from the present, illustrating the complex relationship we have with time and expectation.
In practice
This quote could be used in a motivational speech about pursuing one's goals.
The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural selection of hypotheses: our knowledge consists, at every moment, of those hypotheses which have shown their (comparative) fitness by surviving so far in their struggle for existence, a competitive struggle which eliminates those hypotheses which are unfit.
If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.
No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct.
The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.
A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others - not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others
Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention of experiments, but with the critical discussion of myths, and of magical techniques and practices.
In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard?
All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.
I'm drawn to the taboos that surround the human body. I find it fascinating that we are repelled by many of the acts and processes that keep us alive.
Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.
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