When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of that future do you then cause to happen?

To know your future you must know your past

If you treat the future as something definite, it makes sense to understand it in advance and to work to shape it. But if you expect an indefinite future ruled by randomness, you’ll give up on trying to master it.

By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains malleable, and retains the possibility of change, the hope of coming to prevail; victory, to use an unfashionable word. In this, the future is a game; time is one of the rules.

Why is the future always … in the future?

We must look upon what is to occur as having already occurred, and see nothing but the present in the future, for the future is but the present a little farther on.

They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it's not true. The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about,but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy it or repaint it. We want to be the masters of the future only for the power to change the past. We fight for access to the labs where we can retouch photos and rewrite biographies and history.

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

It is not the present which influences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

Our past is but a former now, our future a potential one.

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

If you treat the future something definite, it makes to understand it in advance and to work to shape it .