9 quotes
"If life is deprived of any meaningful closure, it will be ended in non-time."
The Scent of Time (2009)
"God functions like a stabilizer of time."
The Scent of Time (2009)
"Full of gods means full of meaning, full of narration. The world becomes readable, like a picture."
The Scent of Time (2009)
"If things are deprived of memory, they become information or commodities. They are pushed into a time-free, ahistorical place."
The Scent of Time (2009)
"Historical time knows no lasting present."
The Scent of Time (2009)
"A farewell does not dilute the presence of the past; it may make an even deeper presence."
The Scent of Time (2009)
"Promising, committment, and fidelity, for instance, are genuinely temporal practices."
The Scent of Time (2009)
"The haste of day rules over the night as empty form."
The Scent of Time (2009)
"Time begins to emit a scent when it gains duration; when it is given a narrative or deep tension; when it gains depth and breadth, even space."
The Scent of Time (2009)