5 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer about time
- Author Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be intime alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, forspace has no before, after, or now,
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However much the plays and the masks on the world's stage may change it is always the same actors who appear. We sit together and talk and grow excited, and our eyes glitter and our voices grow shriller: just so did others sit and talk a thousand years ago: it was the same thing, and it was the same people: and it will be just so a thousand years hence. The contrivance which prevents us from perceiving this is time.
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Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it.
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Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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