Time
The measure of change and duration, and its puzzles of past, present and future.
Works to read
- The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, 1895
- Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, 1855-1857 · Great Books
- Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell, 1830-1833
- Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson, written c. 1862-1863; published 1890
- Confessions by Augustine of Hippo, c. 397–400 CE · Great Books
- The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare, c. 1611 · Great Books
- An Introduction to Metaphysics by Henri Bergson, 1903 · Great Books
- Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, 1913 · Great Books
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, 1927 · Great Books
- Lochner v. New York by Supreme Court of the United States, 1905
- Excellent Women by Barbara Pym, 1952
- Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf, 1928
Passages
From the texts
As to what time is or what is its nature, the traditional accounts give us as little light as the preliminary problems which we have worked through.
— Aristotle, Posterior Analytics and Physics
When then time is passing, it may be perceived and measured; but when it is past, it cannot, because it is not.
— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
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