Quotes About Temporal

Time is never completely constituted.

Personal existence is intermittent

A perceived thing is... a certain variation in relation to a norm or to a spatial, temporal, or colored level, it is a certain distortion, a certain "coherent deformation" of the permanent links which unite us to sensorial fields and to a world.

1. Nature possesses a temporal character: it passes, like time. 2. Nature is only ever process: we only ever grasp it in its manifestations, without these manifestations ever exhausting it. 3. It is essential for Nature to pass. There is not Nature on the one hand, and its process as attribute on the other. Nature is pure process. It is comparable to the being of a wave, the reality of which is only global and not fragmentary.

The monastic life is not only quite devoid of value as a means of justification before God, but he also looks upon its renunciation of the duties of this world as the product of selfishness, withdrawing from temporal obligations. In

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.

How long was a year anyway? Fifty-two weeks? Three hundred and sixty-five days? Eight thousand seven hundred and sixty hours?

Time is truly an illusion of the mind.

One of the essential tasks in industry analysis is to distinguish temporary or cyclical changes from structural changes. P.29

DIVIDE YOUR LIFE INTO SACRED AND SECULAR, HEAVENLY AND EARTHLY, CHRISTIAN AND HUMAN REALMS. DEVOTE THEM ALL TO CHRIST.

Time-turner

Our lives unfold in space, and time is just an inessential left-over.

Nothing is forever...nothing lasts.

Nothing is immune to Time. Not even eternity.

I once heard somebody express surprise that instead of following it onward one should not take a cut across Time to secure a moment which, stretching out in line with oneself, would last indefinitely.

The rotation of the world indicates that no one or nothing can last forever in physical form; only the spiritual is infinite.

We can only stop our watches, but not real time itself.

You don't need to master change, you only need to master time. Simply, because there is no change without time and time without change. They are two in one.

A clock only turns one direction

It urges us to set our minds "on things that are on earth," not on things above (Col. 3:2).

Power has her ways. She acts on people, and people act on her. When does power exist? Only in the moment it is exercised.

Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity.

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

I can't interfere with my own past! Because that would mean I'd be interfering with my own past- to stop myself from interfering with my own past! THEN where would we be?!" - 6th Doctor