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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"The future is something we create by forgetting the past."Bataille, Georges
"The future is made of the same stuff as the present."Weil, Simone
"Time is not a line but a river, and we are carried along whether we will it or not."Weil, Simone
"Time is not a container of events but the opening of the infinite."Levinas, Emmanuel
"The future is not what comes after but what calls us forward."Levinas, Emmanuel
"Time is not a mere sequence but a sacred dimension of existence."Rosenzweig, Franz
"Time moves toward meaning, not away from it."Rosenzweig, Franz
"Time is the substance of history."Althusser, Louis
"Forgetting is not the absence of memory but its transformation."Blanchot, Maurice
"Time is the space where we are always already lost."Blanchot, Maurice
"In the fullness of relation, time is transcended."Buber, Martin
"Time is the enemy of authenticity; it permits us to forget ourselves."Bataille, Georges
"A tradition is only living if it is continually renewed."Gramsci, Antonio
"Time is the substance through which history unfolds."Gramsci, Antonio
"Time is not a neutral container but a dimension of human becoming."Lukács, György
"Ethics interrupts the synchrony of being with the diachrony of time."Levinas, Emmanuel
"Time is not the measure of duration but the deferral of presence."Levinas, Emmanuel
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."Russell, Bertrand
"Forgetting is as necessary as remembering for the continuity of thought."Blanchot, Maurice
"Memory is the work of forgetting."Blanchot, Maurice
"Time is colonized by the demands of the system."Marcuse, Herbert
"Time stolen for oneself is time given to freedom."Marcuse, Herbert
"Time is the enemy of all that pretends to permanence; it reveals the cosmic joke."Bataille, Georges
"Each period of history has its own form of common sense and folklore."Gramsci, Antonio
"Time is the constraint within which freedom must operate."Horkheimer, Max
"Time is the substance we waste most carelessly."Bataille, Georges
"The moment is all we ever truly possess."Bataille, Georges
"Time itself becomes a commodity in administered society."Horkheimer, Max
"Time is freedom only if we are free to use it otherwise."Horkheimer, Max
"The past is not dead; it lives on in the present and shapes future possibilities."Lukács, György