James Boswell book The Life of Samuel Johnson
October 26, 1769, p. 174
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson
“Time and Matter are both ideas. Matter makes a more immediate impression on Man, but Time’s effects are longer lasting.”
— Michael Moorcock, book The Time Dweller
Source: The Time Dweller (p. 22), Short fiction, The Time Dweller (1969)
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Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
October 26, 1769, p. 174
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
George Berkeley book Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
Philonous to Hylas.
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713)
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
As quoted in Hitler (1974) by Joachim C. Fest, p. 533
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“Time, matter, space — all, it may be, are no more than a point.”
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
Dying words of Nicholas Saunderson as portrayed in Lettre sur les aveugles [Letter on the Blind] (1749)
Variant translation:
What is this world of ours? A complex entity subject to sudden changes which all indicate a tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings which follow one another, assert themselves and disappear; a fleeting symmetry; a momentary order.
Context: What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days. You judge of the continuous existence of the world, as an ephemeral insect might judge of yours. The world is eternal for you, as you are eternal to the being that lives but for one instant. Yet the insect is the more reasonable of the two. For what a prodigious succession of ephemeral generations attests your eternity! What an immeasurable tradition! Yet shall we all pass away, without the possibility of assigning either the real extension that we filled in space, or the precise time that we shall have endured. Time, matter, space — all, it may be, are no more than a point.
John Angell James (1785–1859) British abolitionist
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 380.
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Sparks
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
Context: Everything matters more than we think it does, and, at the same time, nothing matters so much as we think it does. The merest spark may set all Europe in a blaze, but though all Europe be set in a blaze twenty times over, the world will wag itself right again.
“Time past was nothing, no matter how long. Time ahead was everything, no matter how brief.”
Sheri S. Tepper book Grass
Source: Grass (1989), Chapter 17 (p. 385)