Time Quotes
We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.
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"The past is never truly past; it lives in our present institutions."Alfred Kroeber
"The past instructs the present if we learn to listen carefully."Alfred Kroeber
"Traditions bind us to our past and guide us toward our future."Alfred Kroeber
"In tradition lies both continuity and the possibility of transformation."Alfred Kroeber
"Time is not merely a sequence of moments, but the lived experience of consciousness."Bronislaw Malinowski
"Time does not move forward uniformly; history moves in cycles and seasons."Oswald Spengler
"Time reveals all secrets, but only to those patient enough to wait."Oswald Spengler
"The future is present in our choices now."Gregory Bateson
"Every moment contains all previous moments within itself."Gregory Bateson
"Time is a social construction, not a natural phenomenon."Jacques Le Goff
"Time moves differently for those who wait."Jacques Le Goff
"Time is the most cruel of all the elements in the human condition."Arnold Toynbee
"Time moves faster when we are moving backward in our thinking."Arnold Toynbee
"The past lives in the present through our understanding of it."Marc Bloch
"Time is the medium in which all human events unfold."Marc Bloch
"The present moment is all we truly possess."Marc Bloch
"Memory shapes us more than we realize."Marc Bloch
"The present is the past entered into by another gate."Oswald Spengler
"Time is the canvas upon which we paint our lives."Oswald Spengler
"A historian is someone who tries to understand the flow of time."Lucien Febvre
"Every age has its own characteristics."Lucien Febvre
"Time is the dimension in which history unfolds."Lucien Febvre
"Time is our greatest teacher and our greatest tyrant."Lucien Febvre
"Time is the canvas upon which history is painted."Lucien Febvre
"Time reveals what judgment conceals."Lucien Febvre
"Time is the medium of historical understanding."Lucien Febvre
"Time connects us to all who came before."Lucien Febvre
"Time is both our friend and our enemy."Lucien Febvre
"The Middle Ages invented the concept of time as we understand it today."Jacques Le Goff
"We are all prisoners of our own historical moment."Jacques Le Goff