Clock Quote by William James

“The extinction of all reality is a concept no resignation can encompass. Until annihilation comes. And all grand ideas are seen for what they…

— Cormac McCarthy

“In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, is the clear knowledge that this world's…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it is a clock that they themselves are…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The real catastrophes are always different-unimaginable, unprepared for, unknown”

— Karen Thompson Walker

“No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come”

— Victor Hugo

Nothing is permanent in this world; not even our troubles

— Anonymous

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

How we think about the world and - perhaps even more importantly - how we narrate it have a massive significance, therefore, a thing…

— Olga Tokarczuk

No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

— Anonymous

“This is not a universe that is advancing toward a goal; it is one that is caught in the grip of an unbreakable pattern.”

— Sean Carroll

“If we look through the aperture which we have opened up onto the absolute, what we see there is a rather menacing power--something insensible,…

— Quentin Meillassoux

The Universe is inevitable. The Universe is impossible

— Nima Arkani-Hamed