Quotes About Temporality

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

The concept of time shuts off eternity.

Why does causation run always from past to future, or does it make sense to think that the future might influence the past?

we are always entertaining the delusion that we will go on forever in this world. The result is that the very things which ought to be of assistance to us in our pilgrimage through life, become chains which bind us.

None of your power follows you through life.

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

I tried to record each moment, but time isn't made of moments; it contains moments. There is more to it than moments.

In fact, Luther says the "great idol Mammon" has anointed "three trustees—rust, moths, and thieves"—that ought to remind us of the temporality of possessions.12

Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.

With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.

An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even in a single image. I t just feels that way.

Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.

The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe.

To the one, nights spent in dancing had seemed made of minutes instead of hours; to the other, those selfsame nights had been like all other nights of dungeon life and seemed made of slow, dragging weeks instead of hours and minutes.

An echo, while implying an enormity of a space, at the same time also defines it, limits it, and even temporarily inhabits it.

In its factical existence, any particular Dasein either 'has the time' or 'does not have it'. It either 'takes time' for something or 'cannot allow any time for it'. Why does Dasein 'take time', and why can it 'lose' it? Where does it take time from? How is this time related to Dasein's temporality?

En tanto el tiempo es en cada caso mío, existen muchos tiempos. El tiempo carece de sentido; el tiempo es temporal

All the propositions of ontology are Temporal propositions. Their truths unveil structures and possibilities of being in the light of Temporality. All ontological propositions have the character of Temporal truth, veritas temporalis.

It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be in time alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, for space has no before, after, or now

One needs to be more vitally conscious of what is happening now. This is not to deny the reality of past and future. It is about embarking on a new relationship with the impermanence and temporality of life. Instead of hankering after the past and speculating about the future, one sees the present as the fruit of what has been and the germ of what will be.

Como veremos, o conceito de tempo não tem significado antes do início do universo. Isso foi observado pela primeira vez por santo Agostinho. Quando lhe perguntavam "O que Deus fazia antes de criar o universo?", sua resposta não era "Ele estava preparando o inferno para pessoas que fizessem perguntas como essa". Em vez disso, respondia que o tempo era uma propriedade do universo criada por Deus e não existia antes dele. Quando