Age Quote by Max Scheler

There's a sort of romanticizing of the past. When you actually think about the past, you know it's a little different.

— William Kristol

If we try to think back to the dim and distant past... what is it that helps us reconstruct those times, and to picture…

— Maria Montessori

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

— Paul Scott

Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.

— Dodie Smith

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

— Anonymous

"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.

— Paul Kingsnorth

Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no continuity; we…

— Philip K. Dick

The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the…

— Rudolfo Anaya

“our natural inclination—our “psychological condition at rest”—is to consume the past for our own purposes or try to remake the past in our own…

— John Fea

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

— Anonymous

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past…

— Jules Verne

People gravitate towards their own era, nostalgia therapy is a real thing that's being tinkered with.

— Charlie Brooker