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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"Messianic time is the moment of awakening from the dream of history."
Walter Benjamin
"The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again."
Walter Benjamin
"The present moment is loaded with the weight of all that came before."
Walter Benjamin
"Time is not a container through which we move, but the very structure of our being."
Edmund Husserl
"Memory is not storage of the past; it is the living presence of what has been."
Edmund Husserl
"The future does not exist except as a possibility within present consciousness."
Edmund Husserl
"We do not possess our past; rather, it possesses us."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"Time is not a container but the structure of our being."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"Time structures our being rather than containing it."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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"Past and future differ fundamentally from present"
Willard Van Orman Quine
"The past lives in the present as a weight upon our actions and choices."
Georg Lukács
"Time is not neutral; it is the medium in which social transformation occurs."
Georg Lukács
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"There is a time for sleeping and a time for waking—up."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Time itself is colonized by the demands of productivity and profit."
Herbert Marcuse
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"Being itself is temporal."
Martin Heidegger
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"We must learn to dwell authentically in a technological age."
Martin Heidegger
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"Forgetting is as important as remembering for authentic existence."
Martin Heidegger
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"Being and time are not separate but fundamentally intertwined."
Martin Heidegger
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"The future is always ahead of us, yet we are always already in it."
Martin Heidegger
"Time is not a container in which events occur; it is lived."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The present moment is where all meaning resides."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"Time flows differently for the conscious being."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The present moment is not a fleeting instant but a living presence that holds past and future within it."
Edmund Husserl
"We are temporal beings, always stretched between memory and anticipation, between what was and what might be."
Edmund Husserl
"The present is not a thin slice of time but a living continuity that holds within it both past and future."
Edmund Husserl
"The essence of time is not mere succession but the living unity of retention and protention."
Edmund Husserl
"The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image."
Walter Benjamin
"Every phenomenon that strikes us as being new is a forgotten thing returning from the past."
Walter Benjamin
"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre."
Walter Benjamin
"Time is money, but money is not time."
Walter Benjamin