Culture Quote by Margaret Visser

Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time and labor,…

— Jacob Needleman

What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time…

— Margaret Mead

We're really focused on being 'of no time.' We studied the idea of timelessness, looking at what designs in history have become timeless.

— Miguel McKelvey

If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.

— Mircea Eliade

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

— John Fowles

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we…

— Blaise Pascal

“Time is ubiquitous to humanity and nature but its ephemeral experience within and among us is conceptualized through the lens of culture and langauge”

— Oliver Harper

We have a funny concept of time in this culture. We revere it as we revere money, yet we rarely spend any of it…

— Jan Phillips

Our perception of time is indeed our reality.

— Brigid Schulte

In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.

— Salman Rushdie

We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable…

— Anonymous

“So here we are, having arrived in a moment at the discretion of time. Time—the invisible substance that immerses us all. Time—the Colosseum in…

— Pete Beebe