Quotes on Present

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

Throughout the western world, new systems have risen up whose job is to constantly record and monitor the present - and then compare that to the recorded past. The aim is to discover patterns, coincidences and correlations, and from that, find ways of stopping change. Keeping things the same.