Quotes About Time

Wenn überhaupt die Geschichte auch im Jünglingsalter der Völker eine edle Lehrerin ist, so hat sie in Zeitaltern, wie das unsrige, noch ein anderes und heiligeres Amt.

A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves.

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

Jesus died too soon. He would have repudiated His doctrine if He had lived to my age.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.

Time flies on restless pinions — constant never.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.

In today already walks tomorrow.

The historian is a prophet in reverse.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. —MUHAMMAD ALI

Si l'humanité a été stupide pendant des millénaires, on ne s'explique pas comment elle a pu cesser de l'être, d'autant que ce fut dans un laps de temps relativement très court : et on se l'explique d'autant moins quand on observe avec quelle intelligence et quel héroisme elle a été stupide pendant si longtemps et avec quelle myopie philosophique et quelle décadence morale elle est devenue enfin "lucide" et "adulte".

As part of his ongoing quest for a better allocation of his own time, he decreed that he would no longer have one-on-one meetings with his subordinates. These meetings tended to be filled with trivial updates and political distractions, rather than problem solving and brainstorming. Even today, Bezos rarely meets alone with an individual colleague.

Canada was the most patient invading force in the world—one penny at a time, one pop singer at a time, one actor at a time. … It might take them ten thousand years to conquer the United States, but they were on the move, and the American people needed to wake up.

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.

it's still absurd from a Buddhist standpoint to say the mountain on which the old man / wild fox met Hyakujo is the same one that existed millions of years ago. Yet there is still some kind of continuity from the past to the present, and we all know that.

At best, past and future are no more than reference material for the eternal now. The only real facts are those at the present moment.

Even as bad as it often gets, we are further along than Dogen could probably have envisioned in his day. I don't know how long it will take to finally get there, but, like Dogen, I believe it is possible.