We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
