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
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"The past instructs the present if we learn to listen carefully."
Alfred Kroeber
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"Traditions bind us to our past and guide us toward our future."
Alfred Kroeber
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"In tradition lies both continuity and the possibility of transformation."
Alfred Kroeber
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"Time is not merely a sequence of moments, but the lived experience of consciousness."
Bronislaw Malinowski
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"Time does not move forward uniformly; history moves in cycles and seasons."
Oswald Spengler
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"Time reveals all secrets, but only to those patient enough to wait."
Oswald Spengler
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"The future is present in our choices now."
Gregory Bateson
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"Every moment contains all previous moments within itself."
Gregory Bateson
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"Time is a social construction, not a natural phenomenon."
Jacques Le Goff
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"Time moves differently for those who wait."
Jacques Le Goff
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"Time is the most cruel of all the elements in the human condition."
Arnold Toynbee
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"Time moves faster when we are moving backward in our thinking."
Arnold Toynbee
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"The past lives in the present through our understanding of it."
Marc Bloch
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"Time is the medium in which all human events unfold."
Marc Bloch
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"The present moment is all we truly possess."
Marc Bloch
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"Memory shapes us more than we realize."
Marc Bloch
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"The present is the past entered into by another gate."
Oswald Spengler
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"Time is the canvas upon which we paint our lives."
Oswald Spengler
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"A historian is someone who tries to understand the flow of time."
Lucien Febvre
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"Every age has its own characteristics."
Lucien Febvre
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"Time is the dimension in which history unfolds."
Lucien Febvre
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"Time is our greatest teacher and our greatest tyrant."
Lucien Febvre
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"Time is the canvas upon which history is painted."
Lucien Febvre
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"Time reveals what judgment conceals."
Lucien Febvre
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"Time is the medium of historical understanding."
Lucien Febvre
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"Time connects us to all who came before."
Lucien Febvre
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"Time is both our friend and our enemy."
Lucien Febvre
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"The Middle Ages invented the concept of time as we understand it today."
Jacques Le Goff
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"We are all prisoners of our own historical moment."
Jacques Le Goff