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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"Time is the supreme judge of all human endeavors."
Comte, Auguste
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"Time is the measure of all things."
Spencer, Herbert
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"The present contains all of the past and future."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Time consciousness is not separate from but integral to all perception and memory."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The structure of temporal experience reveals the deep unity of consciousness."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Memory is not a passive recording but an active constitution of temporal meaning."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Perception is structured by anticipation, retention, and the primal impression of the present."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The stream of consciousness reveals time to be the fundamental dimension of all experience."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The phenomenological investigation of time reveals duration to be fundamental to all experience."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Consciousness of time is not a matter of internal clock but of the structure of retention and protention."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The future depends on what we learn and how we apply it."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Time is real and creative, not merely mechanical."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"The past lives on in the present through cultural inheritance."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The present moment contains echoes of all that has preceded it."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Memory is the bridge between past and present consciousness."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Time is the ultimate reality."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The past determines the future."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The past is the foundation upon which we build the future."
Comte, Auguste
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"Time is the canvas upon which history is painted."
Comte, Auguste
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"The present determines the future much more than the future determines the present."
Dewey, John
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"Time is the great teacher; unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Time is the measure of human existence."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The future is written by those who act in the present."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Time is the substance of which life is made."
Bentham, Jeremy
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"In a certain sense, a man is a product of the time in which he lives."
Marx, Karl
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"The time of change is always now; waiting is surrender."
Marx, Karl
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"The future depends upon our understanding of the past."
Comte, Auguste
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"Time reveals what passion conceals and conceals what time cannot validate."
Comte, Auguste
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"Time reveals what we cannot see in the moment."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Time is the canvas upon which we paint our legacy."
Feuerbach, Ludwig