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Man must have been conscious of memories and purposes long before he made any explicit distinction between past, present, and future.

— Gerald James Whitrow Time in History: Views of Time from Prehistory to the Present Day (1988)

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Perhaps the first to approach the fourth dimension from the side of physics, was the Frenchman, Nicole Oresme, of the fourteenth century.

He uses the phrase "fourth dimension" (4am dimensionem).

It must have required enormous effort for man to overcome his natural tendency to live like the animals in a continual present.

Time in History: Views of Time from Prehistory to the Present Day (1988)

The absence of free mobility in time makes it much more difficult for us to be sure that a process takes the same time whenever it is repeated.

Natural Philosophy of Time (1980)

Cosmology is peculiar among the sciences for it is both the oldest and the youngest.

Theories of the Universe (1958)

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Man should possess an infinite appetite for life. It should be self-evident to him, all the time, that life is superb, glorious, endlessly rich, infinitely desirable.

Colin Wilson The Philosopher's Stone (1969)

To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.

Thomas Campbell

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important a function as recollecting.

William James The Principles of Psychology (1890)

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