Quote of Plato - Time is the moving image of...

Biography - Plato:

Greek philosopher (Approximate years of birth and death).
Born: -428 - Died: -348
Period:
4th century BC
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Greece

Time is the moving image of eternity.

Plato - Timaeus

Note

"Wherefore he resolved to have a moving image of eternity, and when he set in order the heaven, he made this image eternal but moving according to number, while eternity itself rests in unity; and this image we call time."

Source: Timaeus

Translation

(French, German)

Le temps est l'image mobile de l'éternité.

Platon - Timée

Die Zeit ist das bewegte Bild der Ewigkeit.

Platon - Timaios

Quotes about time:

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Leonardo da Vinci /

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Francis Bacon - Novum organum /

Time is a great master; it regulates things well.

Pierre Corneille - Sertorius /

time

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince /

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères /

time

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Augustine of Hippo - Confessions /

time

All about time...

Quotes about eternity:

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 /

It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.

Arthur Rimbaud - L'Éternité /

Be humanity evermore our goal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Madame de Staël /

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

If life is ephemeral, the fact of having lived a life which is ephemeral is an eternal fact.

Vladimir Jankélévitch - La Mort /

All about eternity...

Plato also said...

The chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.

Plato - Republic /

Then donʼt conclude that what is not beautiful is ugly or what is not good is bad.

Plato - Symposium /

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato /

We must observe that in each one of us there are two ruling and leading principles, which we follow whithersoever they lead; one is the innate desire for pleasures, the other an acquired opinion which strives for the best. These two sometimes agree within us and are sometimes in strife; and sometimes one, and sometimes the other has the greater power.

Plato - Phaedrus /

I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed ... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.

Plato - Symposium /

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato - Phaedo

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