“Because we believe that one moment is more or less like the next, we lose touch with the essential urgency of the… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences,… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
We are wistful about the golden days of the past and dream of a distant future unclouded by necessity. But I suspect… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
“Few fallacies are more dangerous or easier to fall into than that by which, having read a given book, we assume that… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
“...temporal experience is neither completely recurrent (in which case it would be wholly knowable) nor completely variable (in which case it would… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their reactions safely.… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
“Because we believe that one moment is more or less like the next, we lose touch with the essential urgency of the present, the… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally fit, agree,… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
“...like gravity, beauty is a force whose existence is inferred from its apparent effects.” — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
