For time is the essential ingredient; but in the modern world there is no time.

As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe.

The world began without man and will end without him

Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time' . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is a function of matter; and matter therefore is the clock that makes infinity real.

imagine a world without people

For time is the essential ingredient; but in the modern world there is no time. The rapidity of change and the speed with which new situations are created follow the impetuous and heedless pace of man rather than the deliberate pace of nature.

Which would you choose? A world without religion? Or a world without science?

Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

Beings, things, and events do not exist in time: being, things, and events are times.

time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.

You don't have any time, and yet you're surrounded by eternity. What a paradox for your reason!