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Quotes about time




It's never too late, but it's always high time.
Alfred Adler / 



It's never too late, but it's always high time.




Call to mind the whole of Substance of which you have a very small portion, and the whole of time whereof a small hair's breadth has been determined for you, and of the chain of causation whereof you are how small a link.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 






When you have time you have freedom.
Guillaume Apollinaire / 






Time is the notion of 'before and after'.
Erwin Schrödinger / 



Time is the notion of 'before and after'.




Truth was the only daughter of Time.
Leonardo da Vinci / 






Time softens everything.
Voltaire - L'Ingénu / 






One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom / 






In time of war the laws are silent.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / 






Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius / 






He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Friedrich Schiller / 






This is how philosophers should greet each other: 'Take your time!'
Ludwig Wittgenstein / 






Men are as the time is.
William Shakespeare - King Lear






Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel






Time itself flows on in constant motion, just like a river. For neither the river nor the swift hour can stop its course; but, as wave is pushed on by wave, and as each wave is both impelled by that behind and itself impels the wave in front, so time both flees and follows and is ever new. For that which once existed is no more, and that which was not has come to be; and so the whole round of motion is gone through again.
Publius Ovidius Naso - Metamorphoses / 






He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
Henry David Thoreau






Every movement takes time and is for the sake of an end.
Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics / 






The wise are sparing both of time and words.
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables / 






May I venture at this point to state the greatest, the most important, the most useful rule of education? It is: do not save time, but lose it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education / 






Fortune only changes for those who do not know how to conform to their times.
Niccolo Machiavelli / 






The present alone is true and real: it is time as it is really fulfilled and our existence lies exclusively in it.
Arthur Schopenhauer / 






Sunshine cannot bleach the snow,
Nor time unmake what poets know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson






It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.
Hippocrates






Time, matter, space — all, it may be, are no more than a point.
Denis Diderot / 



Time, matter, space — all, it may be, are no more than a point.

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Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law.
Ferdinand de Saussure - Course in General Linguistics / 






The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy






The separation of history from geography rests upon the separation of time from space.
Bertrand Russell / 






Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Marcel Proust






It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Simone de Beauvoir






The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand Russell ? - Quotation of uncertain origin






I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
Virginia Woolf










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