“Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Platonic Questions, viii, 4
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Il tempo rivela sempre la verità sugli eventi accaduti: il vero processo della storia e in modo accurato, molto accurato l'anima ed il cuore di ogni persona.
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Khalil Gibran book The Madman
Before my Soul taught me, I imagined the past as an era not to be met with, and the future as an age that I would never witness. But now I know that in the brief moment of the present, all time exists, including everything that is in time — all that is eagerly anticipated, achieved, or realized.
My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me not to define a place by saying 'here' or 'there'. Before my Soul taught me, I thought that when I was in any place on the earth I was remote from every other spot. But now I have learned that the place where I subsist is all places, and the space I occupy is all intervals.
The Madman (1918), The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994)
Jeff VanderMeer book City of Saints and Madmen
"The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of the City of Ambergris", Ch. 4, p. 122
City of Saints and Madmen (2001–2004)
“Time is the soul of this world.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
As quoted in Wisdom (2002) by Desmond MacHale
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) Swiss philosopher and poet
30 December 1850
Journal Intime (1882), Journal entries
Context: Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship. Each star passes but once in the night through the meridian over our heads and shines there but an instant; so, in the heaven of the mind each thought touches its zenith but once, and in that moment all its brilliancy and all its greatness culminate. Artist, poet, or thinker, if you want to fix and immortalize your ideas or your feelings, seize them at this precise and fleeting moment, for it is their highest point. Before it, you have but vague outlines or dim presentiments of them. After it you will have only weakened reminiscence or powerless regret; that moment is the moment of your ideal.
Courtney Love (1964) American punk singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and artist
"Life Despite God"
Song lyrics, America's Sweetheart (2004)