Quotes About Time

and doctrinairism are the disease of our time; they pretend to have all the answers."44 Where primitives identify themselves with the world itself, moderns identify themselves with the part of them that controls the world: the ego.

Today has meaning only if it stands between yesterday and tomorrow.

the lined face are pitiless reminders that whether or not we expose ourselves to the destructive forces of life, the poison of the stealthily creeping serpent of time consumes our bodies nonetheless.

How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

I have observed that a life directed to an aim is in general better, richer, and healthier than an aimless one, and that it is better to go forwards with the stream of time than backwards against it.

Nothing brings the relentless flight of time and the cruel perishability of all blossoms more painfully to our consciousness than an inactive and empty life.

Idle dreaming is the mother of the fear of death, the sentimental deploring of what has been and the vain turning back of the clock.

Although man can forget in the long- (perhaps too long) guarded feelings of youth, in the dreamy state of stubbornly held remembrances, that the wheel rolls onward, nevertheless mercilessly does the gray hair, the relaxation of the skin and the wrinkles in the face tell us, that whether or not we expose the body to the destroying powers of the whole struggle of life, the poison of the stealthily creeping serpent of time consumes our bodies, which, alas! we so dearly love.

Es necesario acostumbrarse a la idea de que 'tiempo' es un concepto relativo, y que propiamente tiene que ser completado por el concepto de una pleromática existencia 'simultánea' o 'bárdica' de todos los acontecimientos históricos. Lo que existe en el pléroma como 'acontecimiento' eterno, aparece en el tiempo como secuencia aperiódica, es decir, se repite varias veces de modo irregular.»

There is one more point to be made. The spirit of the age is in constant movement. It is like a river that flows on, invisibly but surely, and given the momentum of life in our century, even 10 years is a long time.

A symbol does not disguise, it reveals in time.

This is precisely the risk modern man runs: he may wake up one day to find that he has missed half his life.

Time is a child—playing like a child—playing a board game—the kingdom of the child. This is Telesphoros, who roams through the dark regions of this cosmos and glows like a star out of the depths. He points the way to the gates of the sun and to the land of dreams.2

But somewhere and at some time there must have been people who sought the truth as I was doing

It is always dangerous to speak of one's own times, because what is at stake in the present is too vast for comprehension.

He loved Teddy Roosevelt's words: 'For the benefit and enjoyment of the people. ' He used to say it all the time.

The rhythms of the road were like rivers that flooded and receded in perpetuity.

three-thirty P.M.

more time away from the family and additional

how long it took at this high altitude

Avoiding hard work required discipline and a complete awareness of his surroundings, as well as an intuitive sense of when to be in the wrong place when extra time or effort was demanded. Like golf or fly-fishing, it was a lifelong pursuit that he knew he might never perfect but he could certainly continue to improve.

Inspiration doesn't "strike." Inspiration is scheduled. It happens when you allow it the time and attention it deserves.

it made me think of all the generations who had lived in this City, dashing and scurrying through their lives, some to leave great monuments and dynasties of children, others rushing only to oblivion.

How easy it is to leave things undone until they are too late.