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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"Memory shapes who we are more than any supposed immaterial soul."
Dennett, Daniel
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"Time is not lost, but transformed; it lives within all we have done."
Wisdom, John
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"Time is the one resource even the richest cannot buy more of; use it accordingly."
Wisdom, John
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"Time is precious for it is the very stuff that life is made of."
Moore, George Edward
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"Tomorrow is a mystery, yesterday is a memory, today is a gift."
Moore, George Edward
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"Your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life."
Moore, George Edward
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"Events do not have intrinsic temporal properties; temporality is a feature of how we conceptualize."
Strawson, Peter Frederick
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"Time and tense are features of how we conceptualize events, not properties of events themselves."
Strawson, Peter Frederick
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"Identity over time is a matter of convention and conceptual choice, not a brute fact."
Strawson, Peter Frederick
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"We are hopelessly absent-minded."
Arendt, Hannah
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"The crisis of authority is the crisis of the past."
Arendt, Hannah
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"We live in a time when distinctions have been lost."
Arendt, Hannah
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"Time is not a succession of moments but a unified experience."
Arendt, Hannah
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"What is past is no longer in my care; what is future is not yet in my care."
Russell, Bertrand
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"Time is the currency we cannot earn back; spend it wisely on what matters."
Wisdom, John
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"Time flies, but it also heals, teaches, and reveals truth."
Wisdom, John
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"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
Moore, George Edward
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"Time is the canvas upon which we paint our lives."
Moore, George Edward
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"Time is not a thing we have but a condition of our existence."
Austin, John Langshaw
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"Time is the substance of which eternity is made."
Weil, Simone
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"Organized forgetting must be distinguished from the natural forgetfulness that overcomes all events in time."
Arendt, Hannah
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"Tradition breaks when we refuse to transmit it."
Arendt, Hannah
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"The future is always uncertain because action is always unpredictable."
Arendt, Hannah
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"The task of philosophy is not to overcome time but to understand it."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Every moment contains eternity."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"The present moment is where eternity intersects time."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"The past is not dead but lives in memory."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Time is the medium in which we become who we are meant to be."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Time is not a container in which things happen; it is the very structure through which we make sense of our lives."
Strawson, Peter Frederick
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"Time is not something we possess, but something through which we are constituted as beings."
Strawson, Peter Frederick