The future is virginal and unscripted, awaiting man’s fashioning.

Evidence

As Ponge has written in a very fine article, “Man is the future of man.” That is exactly true. Only, if one took this to mean that the future is laid up in Heaven, that God knows what it is, it would be false, for then it would no longer even be a future. If, however, it means that, whatever man may now appear to be, there is a future to be fashioned, a virgin future that awaits him – then it is a true saying. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism, 13

Categorization

• DEFINE: Reads Ponge’s aphorism so that a predetermined future ceases even to be a future — only a virginal one counts.
• XREF: connects to: The future is what the For-itself has yet to become, its determining possible being.; The future is a lack the For-itself must be, not a not-yet now — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 450

Related

• The Future is the self awaited as the completion of what it lacks (similarity 0.84)
• Only a being whose being is in question for itself can have a Future (similarity 0.81)
• Only human reality brings the future into the world, not being-in-itself (similarity 0.81)
• The future is a lack the For-itself must be, not a not-yet now (similarity 0.80)
• The For-itself constitutes its Future by perpetually apprehending itself as unachieved (similarity 0.79)
• The For-itself can only found itself by projecting toward a future it never reaches (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The future is what the For-itself has yet to become, its determining possible being. #expands (0.85)
• The future is a lack the For-itself must be, not a not-yet now #qualifies (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 450