Time Quotes

We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.

20900 quotes

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