Quotes About Continuity

None of the pieces that time has lost (singularity, direction, independence, the present, continuity) puts into question the fact that the world is a network of events. On the one hand, there was time, with its many determinations; on the other, the simple fact that nothing is : things happen.

What makes it so—that I am Carlo—and that my hair and my nails and my feet are considered part of me, as well as my anger and my dreams, and that I consider myself to be the same Carlo as yesterday, the same as tomorrow; the one who thinks, suffers, and perceives?

It is the presence of abundant traces of the past that produces the familiar sensation that the past is determined.

I am this long ongoing novel. My life consists of it. It is memory that solders together the processes scattered across time of which we are made. In this sense, we exist in time. It is for this reason that I am the same person today as I was yesterday. To understand ourselves means to reflect on time. But to understand time, we need to reflect on ourselves.

Non c'è più lo spazio che «contiene» il mondo e non c'è più il tempo «lungo il quale» avvengono gli eventi. Ci sono solo processi elementari dove quanti di spazio e materia interagiscono tra loro in continuazione. L'illusione dello spazio e del tempo continui attorno a noi è la visione sfocata di questo fitto pullulare di processi elementari.

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So why is this happening? The answer is like the Ouroboros, the snake swallowing its own tail. When you have followed it all the way round you find yourself back where you started.

It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.

For the oak recalls the acorn, the acorn dreams the oak, the stump lives in them both.

Earth and water, soil and stone, oaks and elms and willows, they were here before us all and will still remain when we are gone.

The sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, and will still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness.

We are constantly producing the past. We are factories for the past. Living past-making machines, what else? We eat time and produce the past. Even death doesn't put a stop to this. A person might be gone, but his past remains.

Time is eternity begun.

As impossible as it is for us to take a breath in the morning large enough to last us until noon, so impossible is it to pray in the morning in such a way as to last us until noon. Let your prayers ascend to Him constantly, audibly or silently, as circumstances throughout the day permit.

Never think you've seen the last of anything.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

The past is never dead-it is not even past.

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Today Relative to Yesterday or Tomorrow The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

Patterns of the past echo in the present and resound through the future.

Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause.