Brian Chesky Quotes

What business does memory have with time?

Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?

Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past. All memory, therefore, implies a time elapsed; consequently only those animals which perceive time remember, and the organ whereby they perceive time is also that whereby they remember.

All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all.

Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.

Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

To live (as I understand it) is to exist within a conception of time. But to remember is to vacate the very notion of time. Every memory, no matter how remote its subject, takes place 'Now,' at the moment it's called to the mind. The more something is recalled, the more the brain has a chance to refine the original experience. Because every memory is a re-creation, not a playback.

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.

Everything I see is something I haven't memorized.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live.

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time; it exists in the past and the future. And remember, time consists of only two tenses, the past and the future. The present is not part of time, the present is part of eternity.

How we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.