Quotes About Temporal

These effects of mescalin are the sort of effects you could expect to follow the administration of a drug having the power to impair the efficiency of the cerebral reducing valve. When the brain runs out of sugar, the undernourished ego grows weak, can't be bothered to undertake the necessary chores, and loses all interest in those spatial and temporal relationships which mean so much to an organism bent on getting on in the world.

This is, perhaps, the most difficult of all mortifications to achieve a 'holy indifference' to the temporal success or failure of the cause to which one has devoted one's best energies. If it triumphs, well and good; and if it meets defeat, that also is well and good, if only in ways that, to a limited and timebound mind, are here and now entirely incomprehensible.

When the brain runs out of sugar, the undernourished ego grows weak, can't be bothered to undertake the necessary chores, and loses all interest in those spatial and temporal relationships which mean so much to an organism bent on getting on in the world.

And carefully he brought Time to a halt, for as long as he wished.

Sub specie aeternitatis, she thought: In the context of eternity, this is nothing, as are all our human affairs.

Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.

But the bottom line is this, once a timeline affects its own past, even though it erases itself in the process, the effect it had still remains.

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

All that may be wished for, will by nature fade to nothing.

I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

What is life but playing with time?

Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.

Time is long but life is short.

Identifying imperial fields of force is a multiplex exercise: it entails seizing on the comparisons—of visions and practices—imperial architects and agents themselves performed, locating their temporal and spatial coordinates, and only then recharting the shadowed zones of governance—smudged and effaced, rendered illegibly blurred—on imperial maps.

this book attempts to tackle: the temporal and affective space in which colonial inequities endure and the forms in which they do so.

Duress, as I shall argue, has temporal, spatial, and affective coordinates. Its impress may be intangible, but it is not a faint scent of the past. It may be an indelible if invisible gash. It may sometimes be a trace but more often an enduring fissure, a durable mark. One task, then, is to train our senses beyond the more easily identifiable forms that some colonial scholarship schools us to recognize and see.

When we make in-the-moment decisions (and don't ponder the past or future), we are more likely to be irrational and impulsive.* This tendency we all have to favor our present-self at the expense of our future-self is called temporal discounting.

There was nothing, it seemed, that grew stale so soon as pleasure.

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.

Tal vez se descubra que aquello que llamamos Dios, y que de forma tan patente está en otro plano diferente al de la lógica y la realidad espacial y temporal, es una forma de nuestra existencia, una sensación de nosotros mismos en otra dimensión del ser.

The Eternal has done a temporal act, the Infinite has become a finite fact. "For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven.

I have realised that we are running after things that are so temporary and fleeting - be it fame or money or anything like that.

Appearance implies disappearance also: whatever appears must also disappear.

Así pasa la gloria del mundo, me dijo Quim desde el otro extremo de la mesa.