I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality,… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The past is a trail you leave behind, much like the wake of a speedboat. That is, it's a vanishing trail temporarily… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“I have a print - you can buy them at the Victoria and Albert Museum - of a photograph of the village… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“Thank you to Giulia Fani, Joan Spence and my sister for the rooms and desks they loaned me.” — Moez Surani Copy Share Image
“Everything that now exists, no matter how great and good it is, lasts for a time, fulfills a purpose, and then passes… — Adalbert Stifter Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“We are doomed to live the feeling of being lost because temporal beings are doomed to feel this way; this is something… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“...And although thus short, we shorten many ways, Living so little while we are alive; In eating, drinking, sleeping, vain delight So… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate -… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you.… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Youth no longer inhabit the privileged space, however compromised, that was offered to previous generations. They now occupy a neoliberal notion of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If we can keep at least a bit of the mind clear about temporality, we can mange complicated, even difficult, times with… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to put your own dreams on hold temporarily so you can help release a dream in somebody else. What… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“Then he asked my age and I asked his. That's the tradition in China. If we know each other's ages we can… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We cannot fulfill our engagements with the Almighty without we have that Spirit with us. We should so live as to acknowledge… — Daniel H. Wells Copy Share Image
The camera has a mind of its own--its own point of view. Then the human bearer of time stumbles into the camera's… — Frank Lentricchia Copy Share Image