Newness-Oldness

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified. (Nietzsche)

Everywhere the basis of principle is tradition. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

They that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new. (Francis Bacon)

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is, different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. (Henry Miller)

When a new book appears, read an old one. (Proverb)

Who leaves the old way for the new will find himself deceived. (Proverb)

Preserve the old, but know the new. (Chinese proverb)