Arbitrary Quote by Wyndham Lewis

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which…

— Wyndham Lewis

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which…

— Wyndham Lewis

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of…

— Lawrence Lessig

The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the historian everything begins and ends with time, a mathematical, godlike time, a notion easily mocked, time external to men, 'exogenous,' as economists…

— Fernand Braudel

Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain…

— Glenway Wescott

So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

— William Shakespeare

Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of…

— Anonymous

“Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.”

— Christopher Earle

“Sometimes time can play tricks. One moment it idles by, an hour can seem a lifetime, such as when sitting by the river at…

— M.A. Lossl

“At some very low level, we all share certain fictions about time, and they testify to the continuity of what is called human nature,…

— Frank Kermode