Martin Heidegger Quotes

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things, is there really time?

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

In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is.

True time is four-dimensional.

I'm trying to understand how time works. And that's a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it.

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.

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

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

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn't age.

Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

Time is a series of fluctuating variables.

Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time is any sensible and external measure (precise or imprecise) of duration by means of motion; such as a measure-for example, an hour, a day, a month, a year-is commonly used instead of true time.

If you look at Einstein's equations and put in low speeds and low gravity, they become Newton's equations.

The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.

No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.

Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.

Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.

Time neither moves nor is stationary. Time changes.

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

Time is just quantified eternity.

Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all.