Current State Quotes

We are now as I wished we could be then.

I think we're in a very low point of music right now.

It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

Good policy analysis recognizes that physical truth may be poorly or incompletely known. Its objective is to evaluate, order, and structure incomplete knowledge so as to allow decisions to be made with as complete an understanding as possible of the current state of knowledge, its limitations, and its implications.

We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

What Is, is more important than What Should Be.

I'm hardly the first person to say that you've [Jeffrey Rosen] written a book about a person who has more to say about the current state of being than almost anyone, Louis Brandeis, and yet nobody is talking about Louis Brandeis.

In the current state of the world, the relentless march of globalization generates more ruptures, tensions, contradictions and collective conflicts than did the exportation of fragments of material modernity to colonies in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

I'm not sure at all about the current prog rock scene.

… there is little evidence as to how it has come about, and no clear proof that the process is continuing in any considerable degree at the present time.

Our democracy has been going for over 235 years and it has not always been as dysfunctional as it is today.

There will never be any more perfection than there is now.

The world I describe is about how people live now. It's not about zany people with unlimited, inexplicable funds in an apartment somewhere.

‎I don't think we can do anything more than what we are doing now.

Music has never been at a better time then it is right now, we're really lucky to be a part of this wonderful thing called music.

The truth is that there is no journey. You are right now what you are attempting to be. You are right now where you are attempting to go.

Transformation isn't a future event, it's a present day activity

Don't you think that the best things are already in view?

What we have currently available is what we have available.

I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.