--- title: "1 Temporal Experience Quotes By Robert Grudin" description: "1 Temporal Experience quotes by Robert Grudin. Plus more from Robert Grudin and more Temporal Experience sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ad/robert-grudin-13477_first-time_temporal-experience-is-neither-completel_1986764.png" --- > [“...temporal experience is neither completely recurrent (in which case it would be wholly knowable) nor completely variable (in which case it would be wholly inscrutable). In effect, it is more like a piece of complex music, a Bach fugue heard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-grudin/temporal-experience-is-neither-completely-recurrent-in-which-case-it/) [Robert Grudin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-grudin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ad/robert-grudin-13477_first-time_temporal-experience-is-neither-completel_1986764.png) ## More by Robert Grudin > [If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-grudin/if-the-estimated-age-of-the-cosmos-were-shortened-to-seventy-two/) [Robert Grudin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-grudin/) > [Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-grudin/truth-is-rhythmical-if-it-implies-stasis-it-is-platitude-truth-is/) [Robert Grudin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-grudin/) > [“Because we believe that one moment is more or less like the next, we lose touch with the essential urgency of the present, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-grudin/because-we-believe-that-one-moment-is-more-or-less-like-the-next-we/) [Robert Grudin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-grudin/) > [To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally fit, agree,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-grudin/to-be-open-to-inspiration-one-must-cultivate-a-leaning-for-the/) [Robert Grudin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-grudin/) > [“...like gravity, beauty is a force whose existence is inferred from its apparent effects.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-grudin/like-gravity-beauty-is-a-force-whose-existence-is-inferred-from-its/) [Robert Grudin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-grudin/) > [Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-grudin/those-who-labor-for-bread-or-money-alone-are-condemned-to-their-reward/) [Robert Grudin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-grudin/) > [The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-grudin/the-happy-individual-is-able-to-renew-daily-and-with-full/) [Robert Grudin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-grudin/) > [No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-grudin/no-psychological-message-is-so-open-to-question-as-that-which-tells/) [Robert Grudin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-grudin/) > [Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-grudin/happiness-may-well-consist-primarily-of-an-attitude-toward-time/) [Robert Grudin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-grudin/) > [Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-grudin/psychologically-time-is-seldom-homogenous-but-rather-is-as-full-of/) [Robert Grudin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-grudin/) > [Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-grudin/individuals-we-consider-happy-commonly-seem-complete-in-the-present/) [Robert Grudin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-grudin/) > [The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-grudin/the-extent-to-which-we-live-from-day-to-day-from-week-to-week-intent/) [Robert Grudin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-grudin/) > [Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-grudin/excellence-of-mind-itself-rightly-conceived-is-expertise-in-beauty/) [Robert Grudin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-grudin/) > [True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold. Age, education, social status,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-grudin/true-intimacy-is-a-human-constant-people-of-all-types-find-it-equally/) [Robert Grudin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-grudin/) > [At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-grudin/at-pains-to-define-liberty-that-most-resolute-of-indefinables-our/) [Robert Grudin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-grudin/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/temporal-experience/robert-grudin/#itemlist", "name": "1 Temporal Experience Quotes By Robert Grudin", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“...temporal experience is neither completely recurrent (in which case it would be wholly knowable) nor completely variable (in which case it would be wholly inscrutable). 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