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*The spiritual man is not conscious of time, once he is separated from the physical body. '''Time is the sequential registration by the brain of states of awareness, and of progressive contacts with phenomena. There is no such thing as time on the inner planes, as humanity understands it. There are only cycles of activity or of non-activity.'''
**[[Alice A. Bailey]], in [[Alice_Bailey#The_Rays_and_the_Initiations_(1960)|''The Rays and the Initiations'']], (1960) p. 408
* [T]he Quantity of motive Force cannot be known without Time... Time (...abstractedly) is the continuance of any Thing in its own Being. ...Time absolutely... is Quantity, as admitting... Equality, Inequality, and Proportion... [Y]ou may ask, whether Time was not before the World was created? And if Time does not flow in the Extramundane Space, where nothing is: A mere Vacuum? ..[S]ince there was Space before the World was created, and... there now is an Extramundane, infinite Space, (where God is present)... Time existed before the World began... Some Sun might have given Light long before; and at present this, or some other like it, may diffuse Light thro' Imaginary Spaces. Time therefore does not imply an actual Existence, but only the Capacity or Possibility of the Continuance of Existence; just as Space expresses the Capacity of a Magnitude contain'd in it. ...[D]oes not Time imply Motion? I answer no... any more than it does Rest. ...[W]hether Things move on, or stand still; whether we sleep or wake, Time flows perpetually with an equal Tenor.
** [[Isaac Barrow]], ''[[Isaac Barrow#Geometrical Lectures (1735)|Geometrical Lectures]]'' (1735) revised corrected and amended by Sir [[Isaac Newton]], pp 3-6.
* Time is... a ''Quantum'' in itself, tho' in Order to find the Quantity of it, we... call in Motion... as a Measure... and thus Time as measurable signifies Motion; for if all Things were to continue at Rest, it would be impossible to find out... how much Time has elaps'd... We perceive nothing, unless so far as we may be instigated by some Change affecting the Senses, or that our Souls are mov'd and excited by the internal Operation of the Mind. ...So that the Quantity of Time so far as we can observe; depends upon the Extension of Motion. ...It cannot be justly inferr'd... We do not perceive the Thing, therefore there is no such Thing, that is a false Illusion, a deceitful Dream, that wou'd cause us to join together two remote Instants of Time. But nevertheless this is very True... That is, for as much Motion as there was, so much Time seems to have been elapsed; nor, when we mention such a Quantity of Time, do we merely mean any Thing else, than the Performance of so much Motion, to the continued successive Extension of which we imagine the Permanency as Things is co-extended.
** [[Isaac Barrow]], ''[[Isaac Barrow#Geometrical Lectures (1735)|Geometrical Lectures]]'' (1735) revised corrected and amended by Sir [[Isaac Newton]], pp 7-9.
* I cannot exist entirely except when somehow I go beyond the stage of action. Otherwise I’m a soldier, a professional, a man of learning, not a “total human being.” The fragmentary state of humanity is basically the same as the choice of an object. When you limit your desires to possessing political power, for instance, you act and know what you have to do. … '''You insert your existence advantageously into time. Each of your moments becomes useful. With each moment, the possibility is given you to advance to some chosen goal, and your time becomes a march toward that goal—what’s normally called living.''' … Every action makes you a fragmentary existence. I hold on to my nature as an entirety only by refusing to act—or at least by denying the superiority of time, which is reserved for action.
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* '''The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.'''
** [[James Branch Cabell]], ''The Way of Ecben'' (1929), Horvendile, in Ch. 13 : What a Boy Thought
*Waiting for the time to pass you by; hope the winds of change will change your mind.
**[[Alessia Cara]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h--P8HzYZ74&ab_channel=ZEDDVEVO "Stay"], ''The Pains of Growing'' (2018), New York: Def Jam Recordings
* '''How we remember the [[past]] determines the shape of the [[future]].'''
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*Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.
** [[Miguel de Cervantes]], ''[[w:Don Quixote|Don Quixote de la Mancha]]'' (1605–1615), chapter 33. Note: "Time ripens all things" is the translator's interpolation and does not appear in the original Spanish text.
* '''There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.'''
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[[File: Crepuscular ray sunset from telstra tower edit.jpg|thumb|Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream ~ [[Khalil Gibran]] ]]
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[[File: 010712 STS104 Atlantis launch glow.jpg|thumb|Embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing. ~ [[Khalil Gibran]] ]]
[[File: Internal view of the O'Neill cylinder.jpg|thumb|The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. ~ [[Khalil Gibran]] ]]
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[[File:Goethe (Stieler 1828).jpg|thumb|One always has time enough, if one will apply it well. ~ [[Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe]] ]]
[[File:Horace Greeley - Brady-Handy.jpg|thumb|The illusion that [[times]] that ''were'' are better than those that ''are'', has probably pervaded [[all]] ages. ~ [[Horace Greeley]] ]]
[[File:Double-alaskan-rainbow.jpg|thumb|right|Time is always moving on; nothing can stop it. We can’t change the past, but we can shape the future. The more compassionate you are, the more you will find inner peace. ~ [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama]] ]]
* “You know what they say about time,” Jacob said idly. “It’s what happens even when nothing else does.”
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* We may... go to our... statement from Aristotle's treatise on the [[Pythagoreans]], that according to them the universe draws in from the Unlimited time and breath and the void. The cosmic nucleus starts from the unit-seed, which generates mathematically the number-series and physically the distinct forms of matter. ...it feeds on the Unlimited outside and imposes form or limit on it. Physically speaking this Unlimited is [potential or] unformed matter... mathematically it is extension not yet delimited by number or figure. ...As ''[[w:Apeiron (cosmology)|apeiron]]'' in the full sense, it was... duration without beginning, end, or internal division—not time, in [[Plutarch]]'s words, but only the shapeless and unformed raw material of time... As soon... as it had been drawn or breathed in by the unit, or limiting principle, number is imposed on it and at once it is time in the proper sense. ...the Limit, that is the growing cosmos, breathed in... imposed form on sheer extension, and by developing the heavenly bodies to swing in regular, repetitive circular motion... it took in the raw material of time and turned it into time itself.
** [[w:W. K. C. Guthrie|W. K. C. Guthrie]], ''A History of Greek Philosophy'' Vol. 1, "The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans" (1962)
* '''Time is always moving on; nothing can stop it. We can’t change the past, but we can shape the future. The more compassionate you are, the more you will find inner peace.'''
** [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama]],Official twitter page of the Office of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Tweet from 8. April 2019 11:30 am. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220310132910/https://twitter.com/DalaiLama/status/1115185155562336256 Archived] [https://archive.is/a7xzy from] [https://twitter.com/DalaiLama/status/1115185155562336256 the original] on March 10, 2022 and January 9, 2024.
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* The ''history of the concept of time'' is the ''history of the discovery of time'' and the ''history of its conceptual interpretation''. ...it is the ''history of the question of the being of entities'', the history of the attempts to uncover entities in their being, borne by the particular understanding of time, by the particular level of conceptual elaboration of the phenomenon of time. Hence, in the end, the history of the concept of time is more accurately ''the history of the decline'' and ''the history of the distortion of the basic question'' of scientific research into the being of entities. It is the history of the incapacity to pose the question of being in a radically new way and to work out its fundamentals anew—an incapacity which is grounded in the being of [[w:Dasein|Dasein]].
** [[Martin Heidegger]], University of Marburg Lectures for the course "Prolegomena zu einer Phänomenologie von Geschichte und Natur" (1925) as quoted in ''History of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena'' (2009) Tr. Theodore Kisiel<!--p.7-->
* Any concepts or words which have been formed in the past through the interplay between the world and ourselves are not really sharply defined with respect to their meaning: that is to say, we do not know exactly how far they will help us in finding our way in the world. We often know that they can be applied to a wide range of inner or outer experience, but we practically never know precisely the limits of their applicability. This is true even of the simplest and most general concepts like "[[existence]]" and "[[Spacetime|space and time]]". Therefore, it will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute [[truth]]. <br> The concepts may, however, be sharply defined with regard to their connections. This is actually the fact when the concepts become part of a system of axioms and definitions which can be expressed consistently by a mathematical scheme. Such a group of connected concepts may be applicable to a wide field of experience and will help us to find our way... But the limits of the applicability will in general not be known, at least not completely.<!-- p. 92 Harper Torchbooks-->
** [[Werner Heisenberg]], ''Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science'' (1958) Lectures delivered at University of St. Andrews, Scotland, Winter 1955-56.
* The way in which the convergent mathematical schemes did not fulfill the requirements of [[Theory of relativity|relativity]] and [[Quantum mechanics|quantum theory]] was... interesting. ...[O]ne scheme ...interpreted in terms of actual events in space and time, led to a...time reversal... The physicists are convinced... that the processes... do not occur in nature... if... separated by measurable distance in space and time. ...If we assume that the laws of nature ''do'' contain a third universal constant... of the order of 10<sup>-13</sup> cm, then... our usual concepts... apply only to regions in space and time that are large compared to the universal constant. '''We should... be prepared for phenomena of a qualitatively new character when we... approach regions... smaller than the nuclear radii. The phenomenon of time reversal... might therefore belong to these smallest regions.'''<!--pp. 136-139 HarperPerennial-->
** [[Werner Heisenberg]], ''Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science'' (1958)
* '''Time is a game played beautifully by children.'''
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** [[John F. Kennedy]], [http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx "Remarks at the 25th Anniversary of the Signing of the Social Security Act," Hyde Park, New York August 14, 1960, box 910, Senate Speech Files, John F. Kennedy Papers, Pre-Presidential Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library].
* In its [knowledge's] light, '''we must think and act not only for the moment but for our time.''' I am reminded of the story of [[w:Hubert Lyautey|the great French Marshal Lyautey]], who once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow-growing and would not reach maturity for a hundred years. The Marshal replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose, plant it this afternoon".
** [[John F. Kennedy]], [http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx "Address in Berkeley at the University of California, (109)," March 23, 1962 Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 1962], p. 266. The attribution to Marshal Lyautey is reported as unverified in ''Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations'' (1989)
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[[File:Rolling-thunder-cloud.jpg|thumb|The flow of time is always cruel... its speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it... A thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days... ~ "Sheik", ''[[The Legend of Zelda series#Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]'']]
[[File:Elakala Waterfalls Swirling Pool Mossy Rocks.jpg|thumb|Time passes [...] Like a river's flow, it never ends. ~ "Sheik", ''[[The Legend of Zelda series#Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]'']]
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[[File:DSC02900 - Milano - Piazza Beccaria - Monumento a Cesare Beccaria - Foto di Giovanni Dall'Orto - 29-1-2007.jpg|thumb|Isn't it amazing the way the [[future]] succeeds in creating an appropriate [[past]]? ~ [[John Leonard (critic)|John Leonard]] ]]
[[File:Leonardo da Vinci - presumed self-portrait - WGA12798.jpg|thumb|O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. ~ [[Leonardo da Vinci]] ]]
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* '''Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all.''''
** [[Pericles]], from [[Plutarch]], ''[[
* Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, <br /> Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come, <br /> In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd, <br /> Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind; <br /> And '''Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last <br /> The speed that spins the future and the past: <br /> And, sovereign of an undisputed throne, <br /> Awful eternity shall reign alone.'''
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* Time began either simultaneously with the world or after it. For since time is a measured space determined by the world's movement, and since movement could not be prior to the object moving, but must of necessity arise either after it or simultaneously with it, it follows of necessity that time also is either [[wikt:coeval#Adjective|coeval]] with or later born than the world.
** [[Philo of Alexandria]], ''On the Creation'' (ca. 15 CE) 26, as quoted by Paul Marston, Roger Forster, ''Reason, Science and Faith'' (2001) p. 193.
* Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time<br>Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines<br>Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way<br>The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say.
** [[Pink Floyd]], “[[w:Time (Pink Floyd song)|Time]],” from the album ''[[w:The Dark Side of the Moon|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' (1973)
* Someone once told me, 'Time is a flat circle.' Everything we've ever done or will do, we're gonna do over and over and over again. And that little boy and that little girl, they're gonna be in that room again and again and again forever.
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[[File:Neulussheim Sunrise near Cemetery meph666-2005-Feb-28.jpg|thumb|Time is the nurse and breeder of all good. ~ [[William Shakespeare]] ]]
[[File:Sonnenuntergang in den Bergen.jpg|thumb|Make use of time, let not advantage slip; <br /> Beauty within itself should not be wasted: <br /> Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime <br /> Rot and consume themselves in little time. ~ [[William Shakespeare]] ]]
[[File:Prague - Astronomical Clock Detail 1.JPG|thumb|All that lives must die, <br/> Passing through nature to eternity. ~ [[William Shakespeare]] ]]
[[File:VERMAY Pierre Fourrey déchargé de l’accusation criminelle intentée contre lui.jpg|thumb|Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try. ~ [[William Shakespeare]] ]]
[[File:MontreGousset001.jpg|thumb|There's a time for all things. ~ [[William Shakespeare]] ]]
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* ''Urbes constituit ætas: hora dissolvit: momento fit cinis: diu sylva.''
*: An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them. In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.
** [[Seneca the Younger]], ''Quæstionum Naturalium'', Book III. 27
* ''Contra primus itaque causas pugnare debemus; causa autem iracundiae opinio iniuriae est, cui non facile credendum est. Ne apertis quidem manifestisque statim accedendum; quaedam enim falsa ueri speciem ferunt. Dandum semper est tempus: ueritatem dies aperit.''
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** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[The Two Gentlemen of Verona]]'' (1590s), Act III, scene 1, line 243
* '''Time's glory is to calm contending kings, <br /> To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.'''
** William Shakespeare, ''[[The Rape of Lucrece]]'' (1594).
* '''Make use of time, let not advantage slip; <br /> Beauty within itself should not be wasted: <br /> Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime <br /> Rot and consume themselves in little time.'''
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem)|Venus and Adonis]]'' (1593), line 129
* Good [[Hamlet]], cast thy nighted color off, <br/> And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. <br/> Do not forever with thy vailèd lids <br/> Seek for thy noble father in the dust: <br/>Thou know'st tis common; '''all that lives must die, <br/> Passing through nature to eternity.'''
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Hamlet|The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark]]'' (Between 1599 and 1601), Act I, scene 2, spoken by the character Gertrude
* '''The end crowns all, <br /> And that old common arbitrator, Time, <br /> Will one day end it.'''
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** Compare [[The Bible]], Ecclesiastes 3:1: '''To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.'''
* The time is out of
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Hamlet]]'' (1600-02), Act I, scene 5, line 189
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