Quotes of Presumptuous - somelinesforyou

“ The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it. ”

- Anne Germain De Stael

“ I am not overconfident. ”

- Romano Prodi

“ The greatest problem is not how to continue but how to exalt our existence. The call for a life beyond the grave is presumptuous, if there is no cry for eternal life prior for our deacending to the grave. Eternity is not perpetual future but perpetual presence… ”

- Abraham Joshua Heschel
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