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Kierkegaard on Time, the Fullness of the Moment, and How to Bridge the Ephemeral with the Eternal
“The moment is not properly an atom of time but an atom of eternity. It is the first reflection of eternity in time, its first attempt, as it were, at stopping time.”
Nina Simone on Time
A meditation on the one dimension of human existence that “goes past all racial conflict and all kinds of conflicts.”
The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Time, Concentration, the Artist’s Task, and the Central Commitment of the Creative Life
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
The Annihilation of Space and Time: Rebecca Solnit on How Muybridge Froze the Flow of Existence, Shaped Visual Culture, and Changed Our Consciousness
“Before, every face, every place, every event, had been unique, seen only once and then lost forever among the changes of age, light, time. The past existed only in memory and interpretation, and the world beyond one’s own experience was mostly stories.”
Nietzsche on Dreams as an Evolutionary Time Machine for the Human Brain
“Dreams carry us back to the earlier stages of human culture and afford us a means of understanding it more clearly.”
Hourglass: Dani Shapiro on Time, Memory, Marriage, and What Makes Us Who We Are
“Change even one moment, the whole thing unravels… There is no other life than this. You would not have stumbled into the vastly imperfect, beautiful, impossible present.”
Time Is When: A Charming Vintage Children’s Book About the Most Perplexing Dimension of Existence
“Time is from before to now; from now to later. Time is when.”
James Gleick on Our Anxiety About Time, the Origin of the Term “Type A,” and the Curious Psychology of Elevator Impatience
“We have reached the epoch of the nanosecond… That is our condition, a culmination of millennia of evolution in human societies, technologies, and habits of mind.”
A Madman Dreams of Tuning Machines: The Story of Joseph Weber, the Tragic Hero of Science Who Followed Einstein’s Vision and Pioneered the Sound of Spacetime
…and a remarkable letter from Freeman Dyson on the difficult, necessary art of changing one’s mind.
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