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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"Thought about the past requires causal chains to history."Burge, Tyler
"Time does not flow; we flow through it, carrying our past like stones in our pockets."Lewis, David
"Time is the one currency we cannot earn more of, only spend."Lewis, David
"Time reveals what theory conceals."Fine, Arthur
"The present is the only place where life is actually lived."Ryle, Gilbert
"The question of what makes something the same object over time haunts all philosophy."Fine, Kit
"What persists through change reveals the true nature of an object."Fine, Kit
"The nature of time constrains and enables our understanding of change."Fine, Kit
"What persists is not always what appears persistent."Fine, Kit
"Time reveals the insufficiency of timeless logic for understanding change."Fine, Kit
"Identity through time is real only if its conditions are objectively fixed."Fine, Kit
"Time doesn't heal wounds; understanding does."Lewis, David
"Knowledge grows through accumulated insights."Hempel, Carl
"Time is understood through narrative and change."Ryle, Gilbert
"The future constrains us through our expectations."Ryle, Gilbert
"What seems absurd to one era may be obvious to the next."Feyerabend, Paul
"Time does not move; we move through it, and our movement changes what we see."Feyerabend, Paul
"The structure of concepts about time is not the same as the structure of time itself."Bohm, David
"The mind creates a wall of time that is not necessary."Bohm, David
"Time is not a river flowing from past to future."Bohm, David
"The present moment is the only reality."Bohm, David
"Time is not a fundamental feature of reality but an aspect of human consciousness."Bohm, David
"To solve the problem of the future, we must first understand the problems of the present."Bell, John Stewart
"Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as we pass through it."Feynman, Richard
"Time itself may be an illusion born from our limited perspective on reality."Everett, Hugh
"In the many-worlds picture, all moments are equally real and eternally preserved."Everett, Hugh
"Time is not what we think it is; it is part of the undivided whole."Bohm, David
"The universe is constantly creating itself in each moment."Bohm, David
"The present is the only thing that has no end."Schrödinger, Erwin
"Time is not a fundamental feature of reality, but an emergent property."Schrödinger, Erwin