Antiquity Quote by James F. Cooper

“On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. Thus he who has travelled far and seen much is apt to fancy that…

— James Fenimore Cooper

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.

— James F. Cooper

“For it is not true that an uneventful time in the past is remembered as fast. On the contrary, it takes the time-stones of…

— John Steinbeck

“The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought. The reason these great events are so rare…

— Gustave Le Bon

“His concept of allochrony - initially introduced shyly as 'untimeliness', then later radicalized to an exit from modernity - is based on the idea,…

— Peter Sloterdijk

Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it,…

— David Gerrold

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is…

— Anonymous

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us…

— Anonymous

“If time and the passage of events are the same, then time moves barely at all. If time and events are not the same,…

— Alan Lightman

“Only on rare occasions was the calendar the basis of the chronology. More often than not, the narrator's sense of time is based on…

— Patricia Lim Pui Huen

The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to…

— Andre Breton