All Quotes By Tag: Time
“You never know when the truth will come home. You can’t choose the time. The time chooses you.”
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“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject… And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them… Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
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Seneca, “Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
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“God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first.”
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“THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell youAnd you will turn backThe hands of time.Smile, I tell youAnd you will reflectThe face of the divine.Sing, I tell youAnd all the angels will sing with you!Cry, I tell youAnd the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterdayTo guide you through the fears of tomorrow.”
“Each of us is aware he’s a material being, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and that the strength of all our emotions combined cannot counteract those laws. It can only hate them. The eternal belief of lovers and poets in the power of love which is more enduring that death, the finis vitae sed non amoris that has pursued us through the centuries is a lie. But this lie is not ridiculous, it’s simply futile. To be a clock on the other hand, measuring the passage of time, one that is smashed and rebuilt over and again, one in whose mechanism despair and love are set in motion by the watchmaker along with the first movements of the cogs. To know one is a repeater of suffering felt ever more deeply as it becomes increasingly comical through a multiple repetitions. To replay human existence – fine. But to replay it in the way a drunk replays a corny tune pushing coins over and over into the jukebox?”
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“Ô, Wanderess, WanderessWhen did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?”
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“The common man prays, ‘I want a cookie right now!’ And God responds, ‘If you’d listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.”
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“The fact that the world exists in time and not only in space means that the world is not completed, that its creation has not yet reached its crowning consummation, that it continues to be created”
“The best things are never arrived at in haste. God is in no hurry; His plans are never rushed.”
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“We are wasting time.Time wastes itself. Who are we to float in its way?”
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“if temporality constitutes the primordial meaning of being of Da-sein, and if this being is concerned about its being in its very being, then care must need “time” and thus reckon with “time”. The temporality of Da-sein develops a “time calculation”. The “time” experienced in such calculation is the nearest phenomenal aspect of temporality. From it originates the everyday, vulgar understanding of time”
“When you do exams, always remember the order in which to do the questions.1 – easy questions, first2 – medium questions, next3 – hard questions, lastIf you do it in any other order, you run the risk of running out of time.”
“Time is simply the measurement of human progression against that of existence.”
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“If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.”
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