Martin Seligman Quotes

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

People have reflected on the quality of time ever since they've been writing. I suppose I have thought about and written about the question of living in the present - but it only lasts for an instant, and then everything becomes the past. The future, you know nothing about, except for some anticipations you have.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

I have wondered about time all my life.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

'Nowness' is a dynamic relation between the past and the future.

Whenever we're having a great time, we're already anticipating the day when we will remember this great time. Many of us live in that unreal area between the past, the present, and the future.

There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.

The past isn't real because it's history, and the future isn't because it hasn't happened yet. I like it, it hints at virtual reality, which I think is how we sort of feel about life sometimes.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.