Time Quotes

"Time under capitalism is colonized, measured, and stripped of meaning."

"Time under capitalism becomes abstract quantity rather than lived experience"

"Time itself is a resource that modernity distributes unequally, affecting people's capacity to participate."

"To think against one's time is to think with those who come after."

"Time is not neutral; it is charged with the weight of historical contradiction."

"Time is the dimension of the symbolic."

"Tradition is not merely inherited; it must be actively chosen and reinterpreted by each generation."

"The past is never simply past; it lives on in institutions, habits, and ways of thinking that shape the present."

"Tradition can be either a dead weight dragging us backward or a living resource for creating something new."

"The past haunts the present; we must consciously appropriate our history to create a liberated future."

"Time itself becomes commodified, packaged into leisure time that serves production."

"Administered time leaves no space for the temporal becoming that constitutes genuine change."

"Time itself is colonized; even leisure becomes productive labor."

"The horizon of our present understanding is always already shaped by our past and our anticipations of the future."

"Our temporal existence means we can never achieve a final, complete understanding that transcends all perspective."

"History is not simply past but continues to exert its influence on the present through the mediation of tradition."

"We will always have enough time if we do not lose it."

"Time is not a line but a plane of multiple trajectories."

"Time is the obsession of philosophy."

"Being is temporal."

"The horizon of the present is always determined by those prejudices that we bring with us."

"We cannot step outside our historical moment to achieve some kind of absolute perspective."

"The past is not fixed but is continuously reinterpreted in light of present concerns."

"The present is not a neutral platform from which to view the past objectively."

"The prejudices of the present age are what enable us to understand the past."

"Cinema does not give us an image, it rather gives us an indirect image of time."

"Memory is not individual; it is collective and machinic."

"Time is not homogeneous; it is fractured and multiple."

"Time is what separates different actualizations of the same virtual."

"Time is not a line but a palimpsest of layers."