2 quotations linked to On the Past and Future by or associated with William Hazlitt, with source notes, explanations and related topics.
Past, present and future, memory, anticipation, value and the asymmetry people often assign to time not yet lived.
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“The future is yet to come”
The brief phrase anchors Hazlitt’s argument that the future does not possess greater reality merely because it has not happened yet; he compares its status with the already completed past.
Source note: Table-Talk, essay III, “On the Past and Future.” This is a short excerpt from Hazlitt’s comparison of past, present and future, not a standalone prediction about what the future will contain.
“I have some desire to enjoy the present good, and some fondness for the past”
Hazlitt states his own temporal bias plainly: he values present experience and retains an attachment to what has already been lived rather than treating only the future as significant.
Source note: Table-Talk, essay III, “On the Past and Future.” The essay appears in the 1821 first volume; the represented wording is from the public-domain Project Gutenberg text of Table-Talk.