Time Quotes

"We are products of our time, yet we can transcend it through understanding."

"Memory distorts the past in service of present concerns; yet without memory, there is no self."

"Memory is not something we possess; it possesses us and shapes what we think we know."

"Time consciousness itself is shaped by the mode of production we inhabit."

"We live in a world where the past no longer guides us and the future does not yet constrain us."

"The price of losing control over the future is that we lose our grip on the present."

"The present contains all that is rational."

"Every individual is a child of their time."

"The future is already contained within the present."

"The present moment contains eternity."

"Time is not a property of things as they exist in themselves, but only a condition of our sensibility."

"We are affected by nothing so much as we are affected by time."

"We spend much of our time lamenting that we cannot change the past, when we might be more productively engaged in building the future."

"The permanence of the world transcends the life span of individual men."

"Time is the pure form of becoming, the movement of consciousness through itself."

"Time is not a stage upon which events occur; it is the very fabric of becoming."

"Memory is not mere retention; it is the active preservation of meaning."

"We cannot understand the past by projecting our values onto it."

"The past cannot be changed, but it can be understood differently."

"Time is not a substance but a form of our inner sense."

"Time is the measure of motion and rest."

"Justice between generations requires maintaining the conditions for just institutions over time."

"What seems to us to be the starting point is really the end"

"The present moment contains all of history"

"Time will tell whether the grass is greener on the other side."

"There is no knowledge of yesterday or tomorrow, but only of what is eternally."

"Enmity is as short-lived as a summer fly."

"Time is the image of eternity."

"Time is a powerful force"

"Time is the condition under which alone our existence is possible."