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He hath made every thing beautiful in his time
The Bible (King James Version)Ecclesiastes 3:11 (KJV)In context
- Beauty
- God
Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Comedy
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
William Blake1757–1827Proverbs of Hell, Line 10
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time’s swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.
William Blake1757–1827Milton (c. 1809), Book the First, 24:72
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour
William Blake1757–1827Auguries of Innocence (c. 1803)In context
- Nature
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
Niels Bohr1885–1962
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986“The Threatened”, The Book of Sand [El Libro de arena] (1975)
- Love
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986Other Inquisitions (1952)
- God
This network of times which approached one another, forked, broke off, or were unaware of one another for centuries, embraces all possibilities of time.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986The Garden of Forking Paths
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986“Juan Muraña”, in Brodie’s Report (1970); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
- Money
I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future and in some way involve the stars.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986“The Garden of Forking Paths”, Ficciones (1944)
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
Margaret Bourke-White1904–1971
People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012Beyond 1984: The People Machines (1979)
Those who adhere to the past won’t be able to cope with the future.
Willy Brandt1913–1992Speech at the extraordinary SPD party convention (18 November 1971)
- Change
The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time.
Joseph Brodsky1940–1996Less Than One: Selected Essays (1986), p. 28
- Freedom