Quotes About Temporal

Thinking about time travel may seem like something humans have been doing since the first caveman dropped the first rock on his foot. But, even to begin to imagine the possibility of time travel, your mind must be able to wrap itself around the notion of a past and a future.

Sometimes the fantasy writers set their novels in an ancient Earth, sometimes a parallel Earth, or, quite often, they offered no explanation at all as to the temporal and geographic location.

Tourism is the chance to go and see what has been made trite… the same modernization that has deprived travel of its temporal aspect has likewise deprived it of the reality of space.

Who will hold [the heart], and fix it so that it may stand still for a little while and catch for a moment the splendor of eternity which stands still forever, and compare this with temporal moments that never stand still, and see that it is incomparable . . . but that all this while in the eternal, nothing passes but the whole is present.31

Surroundings are irrelevant. Exteriors, you learn, are temporal and illusionary and thus meaningless.

When one has been touched by the stellar power and ethereal playing of a sublime musician, one is lifted, if only briefly, to a place beyond the realm of the temporal.

It's like time travel only, you know, slower.

Closed timelike curve is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.

Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.

Are you saying that we can affect what happened in the past? That we can change it?

Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.

If you cannot trust God for the temporal, how dare you trust him for the eternal?

It takes just one unattended moment for an hour to pass.

Nothing lasts forever.

To return to where we started, there have always been two Jerusalems, the temporal and the celestial, both ruled more by faith and emotion than by reason and facts. And Jerusalem remains the centre of the world.

I shall use the phrase "time's arrow" to express this one-way property of time which has no analogue in space.

El tiempo no es algo externo a nosotros, vive en nuestro interior. Sólo nosotros vivimos el pasado, presente y futuro, y el presente es demasiado efímero para que seamos plenamente conscientes de él; sólo después lo recordamos y entonces lo hacemos de forma codificada, si no se disuelve en la amnesia.

--"There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal.

And any ending that may seem to come is not truly an ending, but an illusion. For Time does not die, Time has neither beginning nor end, and so nothing can end or die that has once had a place in Time.

We had any number of clocks surrounding us, and every one of them at one time or another exhibited a lively sense of humor.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

balance your time-bound and timeless selves so you're not cornered by the clock.

We are so caught up with the affairs of this life we give little attention to eternity.

I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.