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Thinking of time


Homo Sapiens is the only time-binding animal.

Alfred Korzybski


Grasping time is tantamount to freeing oneself from the present.

Jean Piaget: The Child's Conception of Time


Time goes, you say? Ah no!
Alas, time stays, we go.

Austin Dobson: The paradox of time (poem)


It doubtless seems highly paradoxical to assert that Time is unreal, and that all statements which involve its reality are erroneous.

John Ellis McTaggart 1908


To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

William Blake: Auguries of Innocence


Space is a still of time, while time is space in motion.

Jean Piaget: The Child's Conception of Time


Time has been imposed on poor man in order
to purify him before eternity.

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The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the Sun.

Ecclesiastes 1:9


What is eternal is circular, and what is circular is eternal

Aristotle


There was no Time or Duration before Creation.

Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
"Principles of Cartesian Philosophy"


I am Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, and I have
the power to be born a second time.

Egyptian Book of the Dead


Woodn't it be grate to go bacc in tyme and korrect your mistakes?
Wouldn't it be great to go back in time and correct your mistakes?

motto of Time Twisters comics


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