Time Quotes

"The tragedy is not that things end, but that we fail to appreciate them while they last."

"Being and time determine each other reciprocally."

"Time is the dimension of human existence."

"Identity and change are puzzles without final solution."

"We navigate by adjusting our entire belief system, not piecemeal."

"Justice between generations requires that each generation preserve the just institutions and resources necessary for justice."

"Time is the medium through which change occurs."

"Time may be unreal in the way metaphysicians conceive it."

"Time consciousness is the foundation of all experience."

"Consciousness constitutes temporal objects."

"Memory retains what is no longer present."

"The living present is the source of all temporality."

"The present moment contains retention and protention."

"Every experience has a temporal structure."

"Time is the form of inner sense."

"Time temporalizes itself in three dimensions of ekstasis."

"The meaning of being is time itself."

"The human exists between remembrance and expectation."

"The present generates the problems with which the future must deal."

"Time shapes all human understanding."

"Every moment contains eternity."

"Time is the substance of human existence."

"Time itself is a form of understanding."

"If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."

"Time is not a container in which events occur; it is the very structure of consciousness."

"We are always in dialogue with our past, even when we believe we are thinking freely."

"The past is not dead; it lives on in our present intentions and expectations."

"The interplay between retention and protention creates the unity of temporal experience."

"We are stretched between retention of the past and protention toward the future."

"Every moment of consciousness is a moment of becoming, not of static being."