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