"That time either has no being at all, or is only scarcely and faintly, one might suspect from this: part of it has happened and is not, while the other part is going to be but is not yet, and it is out of these that the infinite, or any given, time is composed. But it would seem impossible for a thing composed of non-beings to have any share in being."
Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. Time dictates all forms of action, age, and causality, being a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the
"O, how shall summers honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? O fearful meditation! where, alack, Shall Times best jewel from Times chest lie hid? Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back? Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?"
Time"For time would, with us, stead of sand, Put filings of steel in his glass, To dry up the blots of his hand, And spangle lifes page as they pass. Since all flesh is grass ere tis hay, O may I in clover lie snug, And when old Time mow me away, Be stacked with defunct Lady Mugg!"
Time"Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born."
Time"Time is not a reality [hupostasis], but a concept [noêma] or a measure [metron]…"
Time"Every reference-body (co-ordinate system) has its own particular time; unless we are told the reference-body to which the statement of time refers, there is no meaning in a statement of the time of an event."
Time"Ludit in humanis divina potentia rebus, Et certam præsens vix habet hora fidem."
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