Futurity-Antiquity

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation. (Samuel Johnson)

What is actual is actual only for one time, and only for one place. (T S Eliot)

The future is the only transcendental value for men without God. (Albert Camus)

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. (Eric Hoffer)

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. (Sir Arthur Wing Pinero)

Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideas of the future. (José Ingenieros)

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote. (Voltaire)