Angela Carter Quotes

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It." (18)

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.

Time is just quantified eternity.

In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.

There is no space without aether, and no aether which does not occupy space.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

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

By being outside of nature, God is also outside of space and time.

The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.

Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.

As a younger person, my philosophy was jump off a cliff. I realize now that there are stairs and elevators. I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me. I can even ask for help! Not feeling that I have to know everything, and that’s where the growth comes in, in the not knowing.

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.

There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.

Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.

So when people ask me if I believe God created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn't exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It's like asking for directions to the edge of the earth; the earth is a sphere, it doesn't have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.

The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.

The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word.

Time is eternity begun.

I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common.

Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.