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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"Consciousness stretches beyond the present moment, encompassing past and future."
Aron Gurwitsch
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"Meaning accumulates through the sedimentation of lived experience over time."
Aron Gurwitsch
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"We live in an age of unprecedented pluralism."
Peter Berger
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"Time is the substance of which life is made."
Philip Rieff
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"The past is not dead. It is not even past. It speaks to us across the generations."
E.P. Thompson
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"Leisure is not the opposite of work."
David Riesman
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"Time is the one resource we cannot reclaim."
David Riesman
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"Biography becomes history when personal meaning intersects with collective understanding."
Thomas Luckmann
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"We inherit both constraints and possibilities from those who came before"
E.P. Thompson
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"Modernity has given us unprecedented freedom, but also unprecedented anxiety."
Peter Berger
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"The margins of awareness contain both the forgotten and the yet-to-be-perceived."
Aron Gurwitsch
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"Memory is not retrieval but reconstruction, a creative act we perform each moment."
Maurice Natanson
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"Time is not a container through which events pass, but the very structure of human existence."
Maurice Natanson
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"The past haunts us not because it is gone but because it continues to live in us."
Maurice Natanson
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"Every moment contains within it infinite possibility before we collapse it into decision."
Maurice Natanson
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"Our biographies are written not by us alone, but through countless interactions."
Thomas Luckmann
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"We inherit a universe of meaning and transform it through our living."
Thomas Luckmann
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"We inherit horizons of meaning and spend our lives modifying them."
Thomas Luckmann
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"Time is the substance of history."
Lucien Goldmann
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"Time is the dimension in which history unfolds."
Lucien Goldmann
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"Modern man has lost the ability to be bored; boredom has become a luxury."
David Riesman
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"Leisure time has become colonized by the logic of production."
David Riesman
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"Memory is the bridge between our past and our sense of continuous identity."
Maurice Natanson
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"Time consciousness is central to how we construct our personal narratives."
Maurice Natanson
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"The past is not dead; it lives in the interpretations we make of it."
Maurice Natanson
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"The transgressive becomes routine; the routine becomes invisible."
Philip Rieff
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"Leisure has become as demanding as work in contemporary life."
David Riesman
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"The present moment is all we truly possess."
Siegfried Kracauer
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"Time reveals what we could not see before."
Siegfried Kracauer
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"The past can always be changed by the present. The future is dependent upon the present."
Ernst Bloch