Quotes by Philosophers - Page 314

I know none of Time’s cardinal pillar on which it says forever just because eternity is not Time anymore.
Sorin Cerin
And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I would answer when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time. Plenty of it, but exactly how much was entirely irrelevant. I could, of course, have looked at my watch but my watch I knew was in another universe. My actual experience had been, was still, of an indefinite duration. Or alternatively, of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse.
Aldous Huxley
It’s quite certain there are places to which the whole past is as though attached, on which are traced in secret letters for people who are centuries removed from us their thoughts, their will…
Vladimir Odoyevsky
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
Walter Benjamin
Who knows the life which does not burn its own time moments?
Sorin Cerin
Eternity is the stopped heart of Time.
Sorin Cerin
Finally, the functionalist organization, by privileging progress (i.e. time), causes the condition of its own possibility--space itself--to be forgotten: space thus becomes the blind spot in a scientific and political technology. This is the way in which the Concept-city functions: a place of transformations and appropriations, the object of various kinds of interference but also a subject that is constantly enriched by new attributes, it is simultaneously the machinery and the hero of modernity.
Michel de Certeau
Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.
Emil M. Cioran
Time takes no holiday. It does not roll idly by, but through our senses works its own wonders in the mind. Time came and went from one day to the next; in its coming and its passing it brought me other hopes and other memories. [quoted in Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo, p. 54]
Augustine of Hippo
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
Susan Sontag
The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and cherishes it.
Jean Vanier
Because we believe that one moment is more or less like the next, we lose touch with the essential urgency of the present, the fact that each passing moment is the one moment for the practice of freedom.
Robert Grudin
The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.
Alain de Botton
Listen to the time as it can heal everything.
Sorin Cerin
We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.
Criss Jami
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
G.K. Chesterton
The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
Michel de Montaigne
There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The work of memory collapses time.
Walter Benjamin
Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the less mysterious. . . . Space is, after all, solid, monolithic. . . . Time, on the other hand, is a hostile element, truly treacherous, I would say even against human nature.
Stanisław Lem
You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, so all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. You have all the fears of mortals and all the desires of immortals… What foolish forgetfulness of mortality to defer wise resolutions to the fiftieth or sixtieth year, and to intend to begin life at a point to which few have attained.
Denis Diderot
A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
Francis Bacon
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule. Not William the Silent only, but all the considerable men I have known, and the most undiplomatic and unstrategic of these, forbore to babble of what they were creating and projecting. Nay, in thy own mean perplexities, do thou thyself but hold thy tongue for one day: on the morrow, how much clearer are thy purposes and duties; what wreck and rubbish have those mute workmen within thee swept away, when intrusive noises were shut out! Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal. Speech too is great, but not the greatest. As the Swiss Inscription says: Sprecfien ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden (Speech is silvern, Silence is golden); or as I might rather express it: Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
Thomas Carlyle
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...
Stanisław Lem
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.
Thiruvalluvar
…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time?Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while.Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.
Albert Camus
It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.
Seneca
He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
Albert Camus
Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Aristotle
The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.
Seneca
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus
Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.
Erich Fromm
I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay alive. The bigger the job, the greater the challenge, the more wonderful they think it is. It would be good to give up that way of thinking and live an easy, comfortable life with plenty of free time. I think that the way animals live in the tropics, stepping outside in the morning and evening to see if there is something to eat, and taking a long nap in the afternoon, must be a wonderful life. For human beings, a life of such simplicity would be possible if one worked to produce directly his daily necessities. In such a life, work is not work as people generally think of it, but simply doing what needs to be done.
Masanobu Fukuoka
The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
Marcus Aurelius
The years teach much the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.
Alan W. Watts
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
Criss Jami
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
Geoffrey Chaucer
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Alan W. Watts
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Alan W. Watts
All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
Susan Sontag
Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.
Lao Tzu
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
Jean de La Bruyère
God is the name given by theologians to something they know nothing about. There is no God the whole existence is made of the stuff called love.
Osho
For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation.
Plato
One does not ask about one's true identity simply as a matter of course, but only in rather special circumstances. What this means, I believe, is that "who I really am" becomes an issue for me only when my system of values "breaks down," that is, only when I realize that the values according to which I have lived until now are insufficient to inform a life that I can recognize as satisfying. This realization can occur in variety of circumstances: when my beliefs about myself or the world undergo significant change; when I find that two of my values conflict in a fundamental way; or when, as in the present example, the relations among my previous commitments are insufficiently determinate to tell me what to do in the particular situation I face.
Frederick Neuhouser
Some choices will either make you perish or prosper, choose properly.
Gift Gugu Mona
Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle
If you have legs that work, walk in the right direction. If you have an audible voice, say constructive words. If you have functional eyes, see great things. If you are in a position of power, use it productively and if you have a sound mind, think exceptionally; for such is not a given, but grace.
Gift Gugu Mona
The best investment to make an impact on others, because even when you're dead money alone will not bury you.
Gift Gugu Mona
Some lesson are learnt the hard way, but worthy.
Gift Gugu Mona
Some lessons are learnt the hard way, but worth it.
Gift Gugu Mona
Ensure that your fame doesn't bring you shame.
Gift Gugu Mona
What river can flood over the mountains of your love?
Sorin Cerin
This life is not perfect, live it to the full, it's all we have
Bangambiki Habyarimana