Quote of Augustine of Hippo - Nor is it right to say...

Biography - Augustine of Hippo:

Christian theologian and philosopher.
Born: 354 - Died: 430
Period:
5th century
4th century
Place of birth: Algeria
Algeria

Nor is it right to say there are three times: past, present and future. Perhaps it would be more correct to say: there are three times: a present of things past, a present of things present, a present of things future.

Augustine of Hippo - Confessions

Translation

(French, German)

C'est une impropriété de dire, il y a trois temps, le passé, le présent et le futur. Il serait sans doute plus juste de dire ; il y a trois temps ; le présent du passé, le présent du présent, le présent du futur.

Augustin d'Hippone - Confessions

Eigentlich kann man gar nicht sagen: Es gibt drei Zeiten, die Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft, genau würde man vielleicht sagen müssen: Es gibt drei Zeiten, eine Gegenwart in Hinsicht auf die Gegenwart, eine Gegenwart in Hinsicht auf die Vergangenheit und eine Gegenwart in Hinsicht auf die Zukunft.

Augustinus von Hippo - Confessiones (Bekenntnisse)

Augustine of Hippo - Confessions

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Gautama Buddha

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ? - Quotation of uncertain origin

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Alan Watts

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Leonardo da Vinci

The present is big with the future; the future could be read in the past; the distant is expressed in the near.

Gottfried Leibniz - Principes de la nature et de la grâce

The time present of things past is memory; the time present of things present is direct experience; the time present of things future is expectation.

Augustine of Hippo - Confessions

Consciousness is a link between what was and what will be; a bridge between the past and the future.

Henri Bergson - L’Énergie spirituelle

Quotes about time:

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Francis Bacon - Novum organum /

Time is a great master; it regulates things well.

Pierre Corneille - Sertorius /

time

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince /

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères /

time

Time is the moving image of eternity.

Plato - Timaeus /

It takes a long time to become young.

Pablo Picasso /

All about time...

Quotes about the past:

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims /

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères /

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

René Descartes /

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Alexis de Tocqueville /

Whoever you are, here is your master:
He is, was or will be.

Voltaire - Poésies mêlées /

The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.

Simone de Beauvoir /

All about the past...

Quotes about the present:

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Seneca /

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims /

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères /

Whoever you are, here is your master:
He is, was or will be.

Voltaire - Poésies mêlées /

The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.

Simone de Beauvoir /

All about the present...

Augustine of Hippo also said...

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Augustine of Hippo - De patientia /

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine of Hippo /

Love, and do what you will.

Augustine of Hippo - Homilies on the First Epistle of John /

Custom is second nature.

Augustine of Hippo /

habit

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.

Augustine of Hippo - Confessions /

time

The time present of things past is memory; the time present of things present is direct experience; the time present of things future is expectation.

Augustine of Hippo - Confessions /

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