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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"Anything that can be done can be undone."
Paul Feyerabend
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"The past does not determine the future."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Time reveals what argument cannot."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Creatures are creatures of habit; we project past regularities onto the future."
Willard Van Orman Quine
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"Identity across time is a convenient fiction we maintain for practical purposes."
Willard Van Orman Quine
"Industrial society threatens to reduce human time to mere labor time."
Georg Lukács
"Time becomes truly human only when it is filled with meaningful activity and social connection."
Georg Lukács
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"The old guard must make way for the new in science."
Thomas Kuhn
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"Anomalies accumulate until a new paradigm emerges."
Thomas Kuhn
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"The ages of innocence are the ages of instinct; the ages of knowledge are the ages of analysis."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion of consciousness."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Memory is the cement of personal identity and it bridges the consciousness of different times."
Alfred North Whitehead
"The past is not dead; it lives in our present understanding."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"Time is not a container but the very structure of consciousness."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The present moment is not isolated but thick with past and future."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The past haunts the present as sedimented meaning."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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"Time is precious because it is finite."
Karl Popper
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"Time is the ultimate scarce resource."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Time is the most precious resource we have."
Noam Chomsky
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"Every moment offers an opportunity for growth."
Noam Chomsky
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"Memory is not a perfect recording of the past."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Decay is the price we pay for novelty."
Alfred North Whitehead
"Memory is not fixed; it is constructed through our narratives."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Time is not a universal constant; it is culturally constructed."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"Time spent defending old ideas is time not spent discovering new ones."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Time is money, but it is much more than money."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Time is our most precious non-renewable resource."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Identity across time is a practical convention, not a metaphysical fact."
Willard Van Orman Quine
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"Identity through time is a conventional matter, not a deep metaphysical fact."
Willard Van Orman Quine
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"Revolutionary periods sometimes last for decades, sometimes for only months."
Thomas Kuhn