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[[File:Skinner's Room.jpg|thumb|The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be. ~ [[William Gibson]] ]]

[[File:Patrick Stewart Photo Call Logan Berlinale 2017 (cropped).jpg|thumb|We often refer to space as the final frontier. But the older I get, the more I come to believe that the true final frontier is time. In command, as in life, what we do in crisis often weighs upon us less heavily than what we wish we had done, what could have been. Time offers many opportunities, but it rarely offers second chances. ~ [[Jean-Luc Picard]] ]]

[[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]] ]]

 

* '''The illusion that [[times]] that ''were'' are better than those that ''are'', has probably pervaded all ages.'''

** [[Horace Greeley]], as quoted in ''The American Conflict, A History of the Great Rebellion'' (1864).

 

* Time for us embraces a whole field of 'before and after', but [[Aristotle]] says: 'Before and after are involved in motion, but time is these so far as they are numbered' (''Phys.'' 223a28). Elsewhere he defines time as 'the ''number'' of motion in respect of before and after', and he could seriously discuss the question whether there could be time without conscious and thinking beings; 'for if there could be no one to count, there could be nothing counted. ...If nothing can count but soul, and within soul mind, there cannot be time without soul, but only the substratum of time' (ibid. 219b2, 223a22)