Saint Augustine Quotes

For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

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

Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

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

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proved.

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.

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.

The meaning of today will not be clear until tomorrow.

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.

My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it, yet this stage can never be reached, since it would be one more moment bounded by the horizon of its future, and requiring in its turn, further developments in order to be understood.

Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.

I think, therefore I am confused.

Sometimes you can't know until you know.

I think time just goes faster and faster. I'm saying this a few months away from my fortieth birthday. I don't know when and if one's identity ever does catch up with one's actual age. Personally I feel like I just got the hang of thirty-five.

The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.