Saint Augustine Quotes

What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had.

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.

The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

Is Knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know?

All our science and philosophy form only an island of knowledge surrounded by an ocean of mystery. The larger the island grows, the longer the shoreline where the known meets the unknown.

Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things.

What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.

I know all one can know when one knows nothing.

Even those of us who are very very aware are still so unaware. Everything's relative so that, the more you know, the more you know you don't know anything.

Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

TIME is not a thing that's ours to lose.