Sir was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.”
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I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.
My God is a child, so wonder not that the spirit of this time in me is incensed to mockery and scorn.
Couldn’t I for once have you and the work at the same time?
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
art / time / victorious / World
I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity, I had understood nothing.
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.
Not the least of the torments which plague our existence is the constant pressure of time, which never lets us so much as draw breath but pursues us all like a taskmaster with a whip. It ceases to persecute only him it has delivered over to boredom.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be in time alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, for space has no before, after, or now.
co-existence / contiguity / space / time