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TIME AND JOURNEY IN THE TIME

-Alain: times are short to the one that thinks, and endless to the one that wishes.

-Went A.: " do not ask me for my age, it changes all the time ".

-Apollinaire: Cross(spend) days and cross(spend) weeks

Nor past

Nor courtship return

Under the bridge Mirabeau pours the Seine

Vienna at night sounds hour

Days go away I live(remain)

-Aristote: - part is a measure at all, and the Whole must be consisted of parts; now time, it seems, is not consisted of moments.

Moment did not leave more time than him(it,her) are the points of the line.

Time is a sort of number.

It is the counted, not the means to count.

Time is the number of the movement, according to the front and later.

-Question is awkward to know if, without the soul, time would exist or not. (Physique IV)

-Asimov I.: " Take a more likely case and more easily analyzable and let us consider the man who, in the journeys through Time, meets himself, and the four possibilities in which such an act can occur. Let us call the first individual in the physio-time: In, and the other one B. First possibility: In and B can not see itself and not make anything which(who) can affect them mutually in a significant way. In that case, they did not really meet and we have to spread(push aside) this case as not presenting any interest. Or B, the second individual, can see A while A does not see B. Here neither, no serious consequence must be envisaged. B seeing A, sees him(it) in a position and engaged(opened) in an activity of which it(he) already has knowledge. Nothing again is implied. The third and fourth possibilities are that A sees B, while B does not see A, and while A and B see each other each other. In every case, the important point is that A saw B; the man in a first stage(stadium) of the physiological existence sees itself in a following stage(stadium) himself. Let us note that it(he) learnt that it(he) will be alive at the visible age of B. He knows that he will live for a long time to carry out the action of which he was the witness.

Now, a man knowing his future, even in greatest detail, can act according to this knowledge and, consequently, he changes his future. It follows that Reality must be changed not so as to allow in A and B to meet or, at least , to prevent A from seeing B. Then, as long as nothing can be discovered in a Reality made real, In has never met B. Also, in any visible paradox of the journey in the Time, Reality always changes so as to avoid paradox and we arrive there at the conclusion which there is no paradox in the journey in the Time and which he can not have there any of it. (The end of the Eternity)

-Audiberti: It is of time that time feeds.

-Averroès: To perceive time, it is not to perceive some movement seized by one of our senses(directions), because we have the sensation of time even when we are in the darkness and even when no movement reaches until our senses(directions); we have so this sensation only because we feel(smell), in our soul, some movement.

-Aymé Mr.: Bit by bit, idea was daylight that the people could have time... It(he) became evident that the notion of time, such as our ancestors him(her,it) had been passed on of millennium in millennium, was rather funny one swing. The old man and inéxorable Stopwatches, who had until then imposed the cadence of his(its,her) forgery, lost many of his credit. ( The master key - wall)

-Bachelard: - From where a paradox that it is necessary to clearly express: whereas the time of the prosodie is horizontal, the time of poetry is vertical.

- - 1° The length doesn't have direct by force; the real time really only exists by the isolated instant, it is entire in the present, in the act, in the present.

2° However being a place of resonance for the rhythms of the instants and, as such, one could say that he/it has one past as one says that an echo has a voice.

... Of the side of the future the rhythm is naturally, less strong. Between the two nothing: yesterday and tomorrow, there is not a symmetry... Humanly the dissymmetry of the past and the future is radical.

- For the statistical conceptions of the time, the interval between two instants is only one interval of probability; more his/her/its nothing lies down, more has luck that one instant comes to finish it. It is this accentuation of luck that measures the size of it. The empty length, the pure length doesn't have whereas a size of luck.

- The time has several measurements; the time has a thickness.

-Barjavel:

       - Did he/it kill his/her/its ancestor?

         Therefore he/it doesn't exist.

         Therefore he/it didn't kill his/her/its ancestor.

         Therefore he/it exists.

         Therefore he/it killed his/her/its ancestor.

         Therefore he/it doesn't exist... (The imprudent traveler)

- Barreau H.: - The time is a scale serving to determine an extensive so-called size, whose divisions permit to assign of dates to simultaneous events, and of which the differences between these divisions provide the measure of the length that flows out between them.

-Baudelaire: For me, if I bend toward the beautiful Feline, the named so well, that is at a time the honor of his/her/its sex, the pride of my heart and the perfume of my mind, that it is the night, that it is the day, in the full light or in the opaque shade, in the bottom of his/her/its adorable eyes I always see distinctly the hour, always the same, a vast, solemn, big hour as the space, without divisions of minutes nor of seconds - an immobile hour that is not marked on the clocks, and however light like a sigh, fast like a glance.

And, so some intruder came to disturb me while my look rests on this delicious dial, so some Genius dishonest and intolerant, some Demon of the setback came to tell me: At " what do you look there with so much care? For what do you look in the eyes of that being? Do you see the hour, prodigal and slothful " mortal, there? I would answer without hesitating: " Yes, I see the hour, he/it is the eternity "!

-Bergson: - The time is invention, or it is not nothing at all.

- We don't think the real time. But we live it because life overflows intelligence.

- That says mind says, above all, conscience... Conscience first means memory.

-... one doesn't make the movement with immobilities, nor of the time with the space.

- Bogdanoff I. and G.: - The journey in the time is, par excellence, the theme where the science-fiction expresses itself with the more of wealths and originality...

Because of his/her/its complexity and his/her/its sophistication he/it is nevertheless, a lot less popular than one could believe it.

- If the journey toward the past had been invented somewhere in the future, we would already have received surely the visit of a man of the future.

- The entropy (that is to say the mess) a system can only go while increasing; says otherwise, what we name " out-flow of the time " is only a direct function of the entropy to which all systems (biologic or no) are submitted. As it is impossible to reduce the entropy of a system, it would be also impossible to reverse the time and, has fortiori, to travel in the past. (Keys for the science-fiction)

-Bohr: - The same concept of observation entails an irreversibility of principle.

- It is necessary to renounce in a strong person measures to a description in the space and in the time... the desire of an intuitive representation conforms to the pictures in the space and the time is not justified.

-Boltzmann: The entropy is a measure of the mess of the state of a physical system.

-Borgès: - The time is a fire that devours me. But I am fire.

-... the time was not absolute, nor uniform. He/it was opinion that there was an infinite set of time, a divergent, convergent, parallel time maze, that went always enlarging, in a dizzy growth. This canvas of the times - whose sons come closer, bifurcate, cross themselves or ignore themselves through the centuries - includes every possibility. In most these times, we don't exist. In some you exist, but not me; in others it is I, but not you; in others again, nor you nor I don't exist. (The garden of the trails that bifurcates)

- " The time is the problem fundamental of the existence... The time is succession... To exist, it be the time, and ourselves, we are the time... I want to say that it is impossible to put it in brackets... Our conscience pass continually of a state to another, and it is it, the time, the succession ".

- " The number of the atoms that composes the world is, although excessive, limited, and susceptible as such of a limited number (although excessive him also) of combinations. In one infinite time, the number of the possible combinations must necessarily be reached and the universe must necessarily repeat itself. To new you will be born of a stomach, all over again your skeleton will grow, all over again this same page will arrive between your identical hands, all over again you will follow all hours until the one of your unthinkable " death. It is under this shape that presents himself this reasoning, of his/her/its insipid prelude until his/her/its menacing and immense end, customarily. (The doctrine of the cycles)

-BRADBURY R.: To crush a small plant of nothing at all can have some incalculable consequences. A small mistake here can make snowball and can have some disproportionate repercussions in sixty millions of years. Evidently, our theory can be false. Have ourselves maybe no power on the time; maybe again the change that we would provoke would have it place that in subtler details... But so much that we swim in the uncertainty on the storm or the light quivering that can create our incursion in the Time, we must be filthily prudent. (A thunder clap)

- Breton: He/it makes a time of time.

-Brown: If an infinite number of universe exists, all possible combinations must exist. So each event is true somewhere... There is an universe in which Huckleberry Finn is a real no one accomplishing what Mark Twain imagined very precisely. An infinite number of universe in which Huckleberry Finn accomplishes every variation possible of the acts that Mark Twain could have described also exists... And an infinity of universe where the situations are as we cannot describe them, nor even to imagine them.

-Carroll L.: Remember the square watch of the professor. This is a foreign watch which has this particular property not to walk(work) in time, but time walks(works) with her(it). Forge ahead her(it), early in the real time, is impossible; but I may return her(it) at the back of near month. (Sylvie and Bruno)

-Castoriadis: time is emergence of the other figures. The points of a line are not other; they are different for what they are not - their place. To give itself the line as the figure of time, it is to confuse(merge) (spatial) difference and (temporal) otherness.

-Turkish traditional song: Your beauty will fade as in time decreases then disappears the moon.

-Chardonne: science and time have of the imagination; the people are radoteurs.

-Chuangtse: There was a beginning. One time ago before this beginning. And one time ago before time who(which) was before this beginning. There was a being. There was a non-being. One time ago before it to non-be. And one time ago before time which was before it to non-be. Suddenly, there is a being and there is a non-being, but I do not know who of the being and the non-being is really to be him(her) or of the non-being. I have just said something, but I do not know if what I have just called said really something or does not say anything.

-Cioran: My mission is to kill time and his to kill me in its tour(tower). One feels at ease among murderers.

-Claudel: time is the sense(direction) of the life.

-Cooney and Altieri: Take time that it would be necessary to reduce to dust Himalaya by rubbing him(it) with a silk veil every thousand years, multiply him(it) by the number of stars which illuminate the sky on a beautiful summer night, and you will obtain a plot of land of time contained in the eternity, comparable to the plot of land which represents a single grain of sand for all the deserts of the earth(ground).

-Conche: time is not allowed seize in himself(itself): it(he) shows himself only denied.

-crow: time is a Grand Master, it settles(adjusts) many things. ( Sertorius)

-Dac: infinity, it is long, especially toward the end.

-Delvaux: And if I assume this idea, almost impertinent, advanced(moved) by Umberto Eco who holds her(it) of Borgès, who the authors are used by books(pounds) to speak to you, I wonder if, in the composed question (among us) of the hen and some egg, hen is not the subtlety which an egg uses to lay another egg.

-Desanti J.-T.: - speeches at the time are always strange. (Reflections at the time, Grasset, on 1992)

-Descartes: - There is no substance which does not stop existing when it stops lasting duration is different from the substance only by the thought.

-Time is only a certain way of which we think in this duration.

-Deutsch and Lockwood: - If the theory of the multiple universes is exact, then all the usual objections in the temporal journey are based on erroneous models of the physical reality. Whoever throw back(reject) the idea of a temporal journey has to formulate a new argument, scientific or philosophic.

-of Vinci: moment has not of time.

-currency(slogan) of the Guild of the Watchmakers of Basel, XVIè century: I cross(spend) my hours to be said hour.

-Devos: As as to make that to travel in the time, it is better that time is beautiful.

-Dobson A.: time passes, do you say? But not!

Regrettably, time stays, we pass.

-Dubillard R.: time is not a directed right-hand side: it is the ball which runs(drives) at random.

-Dunne J.W.: The stream of the time of past towards the future is authentic. Only the current moment of every moment is real. Another level of time is necessary to conceive the progress of our time: it is a question one above time. And one above - supra-temps is necessary to conceive the progress of it above time.

-Durrande: The notion of time is a first notion, which one would not know how to define. Time is represented with a real, noted number t. A value t1 of time is called date... An interval of time is an interval of R, ordered by the relation < or =. Duration (t2-t1) is the amplitude of the interval [t1 , t2].

-The Ecclesiastes I, 9: Any thing(matter) which was will be, and all which came true will be again carried out, because there is nothing again under the sun.

-Eckhart: - In the daytime which passed by for six or seven days and the days which were there is six thousand years is as close current as in the daytime which was yesterday. Why? Because time is there, in a current present.

If we said that God created world yesterday or will create it tomorrow, we would behave in a insane way. God creates world and any things in a current present and time which passed by here is thousand years is now so present to God and as close as the time which is now.

-Eddington: time is the suprème law of nature. (Space, time and gravitation.)

-Einstein: - Sit down one hour near a beautiful girl, it passes as one minute. Sit down one minute on an ardent heater, and it passes as one hour. It is it relativity.

-Now, although it(he) left this strange world a little before me, it's nothing, because we, who believe in the physics, know what distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion stubbornly held.

-A complete description of the movement is realized only when one indicates how the body changes place in time, that is which it is necessary to indicate for every point of the career at which moment the body is there. These indications must be completed by a definition of time such as these values of time can, by virtue of this definition, be considered as a rule as observable sizes(greatnesses) (results of measures).

-Eliot T.S.: The present time and the past

Are maybe both presents in the future time

And the future time in past.

-Empédocle: Because at other times I was a boy, a girl, and a bush, a bird, a dumb fish in the salty waters.

-Epicurus: - infinite time contains the same pleasure as the finished time.

-Nothing of unusual can occur in the universe except what already arrived in the infinite duration.

-Fénelon: The human being never has the time to be, he never has the time when to become.

-Feynman: time, it is what passes when nothing happens.

-Fraisse P.: - 1) The more an activity is split, the more it appears to last for a long time.

2) The more an activity is interesting, the more it seems brief.

3) The time of a wait(expectation) is always too long.

-France A.: future is hidden, even for those that make him(it).

- Franklin B.: time, it is some money(silver).

-Galilee: It is necessary that we fix our attention on the affinity which exists between the movement and the time.

-genesis: Elohim called light in the daytime and he called darkness at night. There was an evening, there was a morning: first day.

-Giono: Let us admit that there is not any more anything... Who happens? Nothing. Only time.

-Giraudoux: fate, it is simply shape accelerated of time.

-Giroud F: time does not forgive for what one makes without him.

-attic C.: temporal journey suffers certain contradictions with the most elementary logic, what spreads(pushes aside) him(it) from the scientific domain ". (S.-F. Readings of the future?)

-Guitry: - to say to a child: " Think in your future " be not enough. It is necessary especially to say to him(her): " Prepare your past ".

- past feeds on present minutes.

-Haïkaïs of Basho : A petal falls. One moment. A century.

-Hamilton: The author of this paper was led(driven) to believe that the intuition of time is such an element. This faith leans on the following three constituents: In the first place, that the notion of Time is bound(connected) to the existing Algebra; Secondly, that this notion or intuition of Time can be developed in an independent Pure Science; and, Thirdly, that the Science of Pure Time, so developed, is coextensive and identical with the Algebra, as far as Very algebra is a Science. First judgment results from an induction; the second of a deduction; the third results at the same moment from inductive and deductive processes. (Theory of Conjugate Functions)

-Hawking: - One could say: " condition in the limits of the universe is that it(he) has no limits. " The universe would contain itself completely itself and would not be allocated by anything of outside to him. It(he) could be neither(either) created or destroyed(annulled). It(he) could not that BE.

- So, maybe as what we call imaginary time is really more fundamental, what it what we call real-time is only an idea that we invent to use to describe the universe such as we conceive him(it).

- The best pr oof that a journey in the time is impossible is that we were not invaded with troops of tourists of future. (Black Holes and babies universe)

- Every time which somebody tries to make a machine to to go back up(raise) time, and which that or the device used for that purpose (a hole of worm, a cylinder in rotation, a " cosmic rope ", or whatever it is of the other one), just before the device becomes a temporal machine, a bundle of fluctuations in the space crosses him(it) and destroys(annuls) him(it).

- Guess of " chronological protection

-Hegel: - history is spirit alienated in the time.

-To be, To be pure, without any other determination... Nothingness, pure nothingness; it is simple equality with itself... The pure being and pure nothingness are so the same thing(matter). What is true, they are not either the being or the nothingness, but the passage, the already made passage, to be it in the nothingness and of this one in that one... (Phénoménologie of the spirit)

-Time itself is this future, happened and passage, to abstract him(it) who is, the one that engenders and wastes(destroys) his shoots: Stopwatches ". (Encyclopedia)

-Heidegger: - We do not question either the only being, or the only time, we do not ask either being and also of time, but we ask unlike their intimate comembership and unlike what springs from it.

-The central problem of any ontology is rooted in the phenomenon of correctly seen and correctly clarified time.

-The dimension embrassante of the being is an one and only thing(matter) with the offensive insulation of time.

-The abyss is the original unity of the space and the time, this unity unifiante which lets them part one of what in their divorce.

-Past and present proceed of future.

-Heisenberg: One established that it is impossible to indicate simultaneously, to will and exactly, position and the speed of an atomic particle.

-Héraclite: - time is a child who plays the backgammon.

-One can not come down(fall) twice in the same river or touch twice a perishable substance in the same state.

-Everything passes by.

-It is the same in us to be what is alive and to be what died, aroused or put to sleep(sleepy), young person or old; because, by the change, this is it, and by the change it is in the tour(tower) this.

-Hugo: - all the infinity shivers with an atom which one gets(touches).

- time run s away from my hands as the sand in the wind.

-smell: - time, it is the fruit of the experience(experiment) of changeable sensations.

-We form the idea of time of the succession of ideas and impressions(printings)... A man profoundly put to sleep, or powerfully occupied by a thought, is not conscious of time.

-Husserl: The perception of duration presupposes a duration of the perception itself.

-Jacquard loom: Is reality the moon, the reflection of the moon or the light of the moon? My senses(directions) are informed only by this light, established(constituted) by vibrations. Without the drainage of duration, she(it) would have no existence. The colour of things shows itself only by the waves which they reflect, and these waves are defined only according to time. This one is a constituent of the reality. In an instant without thickness that we call present, any dynamics is impossible; nothing of what we call reality can find there place. The immediate, it is nothingness ".

-James: - The moment when I speak is already far from me.

-Generally, a time filled(performed) with varied experiences(experiments) seems short whereas it passes and length when one remembers it himself afterward. On the contrary, it is whereas it(he) crosses(spends) that an empty time seems long, and it is when one remembers it himself that it seems short.

-As one ages, time seems shorter.

-Jarrosson B.: According to our hypothesis, it is advisable so to knock down causality between time and event. It is not the existence of the time which allows event, but event which is time. Something does not happen because time passes; it is rather that time passes when happens something.

-Jarry: - duration is the transformation of a succession in a reversion, that is the future of a memory. Complete works, Gallimard,

-Past should beyond future, seen with the machine (be travelled in the time).

-Kant: - time is only a subjective condition of our intuition, which is always sensitive, that is which occurs as we are affected with objects, and it is not anything except the subject.

-Time is inevitably objective with regard to all the phenomena.

-Idéalité transcendental of time, pure intuition and not concept.

-Klein G.: - neither movement with speed supraluminique nor journey in the time, these two privileged subjects and even in a lot of consideration founders of modern SCI-FI, is acceptable one second by authentic one physicist, it was endowed with a big width of sight.

-the Heath: The children either did not cross(spend), or the future, what does not arrive at us; they enjoy the present.

-the Fountain: Nothing serves for running(roaming), it is necessary to leave just in time...

-Lamartine: - The man has no port(bearing), time has no bank; it(he) pours and we pass.

-O time suspend your flight(theft).

-Jealous time, it is possible that these moments of drunkenness

Where love with long streams pays(pours) us happiness

Fly away far from us of the same speed

What the days of misfortune?

-Lamb Charles: Nothing leaves me more perplexed than time and space. And nevertheless nothing puts me less problem, because I never think of it.

-Langevin: Let us suppose that two portions of material(subject) meet first time, part, then meet themselves. We can assert that observers bound(connected) to the one and in other during the separation will not have estimated in the same way the duration of this one, will not have aged as much any as the others.

-Laplace: We have so to envisage the present state of the universe as the effect of its previous state, and as cause of the one that is going to follow. An intelligence which for a moment given would know all the forces nature of which is full of life and the respective situation of the beings which compose her(it), so moreover it was rather vast to subject its data to the analysis, would kiss(embrace) in the same formula the movements of the biggest bodies of the universe and those of the lightest atom: nothing would be vague for her(it), and the future, as past, would be present in his eyes. Human mind offers in the perfection that it knew how to give to the astronomy a weak sketch of this intelligence. The discoveries in mechanics and in geometry, joined to those of the universal gravity, put him(it) to understand(include) in the same analytical expressions the present and future states of the world. By applying the same method to some other objects of its knowledge, it(he) succeeded in returning to general laws observed phenomena, and in foreseeing those that given circumstances have to hatch. All these efforts in the search for the truth tend to move closer him(it) without respites of the intelligence which we have just conceived, but from which(whom) it(he) will remain always infinitely taken away. This tendency appropriate(clean) for human race is what makes her(it) superior to animals, and the progress in this kind(genre) distinguish nations and centuries and make their real glory. (Philosophic Attempt on probability)

-Leibniz: - Any present state of a simple substance ensues from its previous state, in a way that its present is big of his(its,her) future.

-Time and space are taken as outside things and serve for measuring them.

-And in this sense(direction) time is the measure of the movement, that is uniform movement is the measure of the deformed movement.

-In the area answers duration. And a part of duration, in whom we do not notice any succession of ideas, it is that we call a moment.

-Present is big of the future.

-It is not movement, but a constant continuation(suite) of ideas which gives us the idea of duration.

-Why is there a being rather than anything?

-Lemaître: If we go back up(raise) the class(course) of time, we have to find less and less quanta, until we find all the energy of the universe collected in some quanta, or even in an unique(only) quantum... If world began with a single quantum, the notions of space and time had no sense(direction) at first... If this supposition is correct, the beginning of the world took place a little before the beginning of the space and the time.

-Lestienne R.: time is a degree of freedom by the custom(usage) of which objects keep(guard) their identity, while moving in a certain way called the future. The threads of time, NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, 1990 , p. 16.

-Lévinas: To have time and a history, it is resources the future and one past. We have no present. It(he) avoids(flees) us between fingers. It is in the present, however, that we are and that we can have passed and the future. This paradox of the present - everything and anything - is old as the human thought.

-Lévy-Leblond: moment zero is not on the line of time. One can not so return behind towards the origin absolved from the universe, because temporal origin does not exist. From the point of view of the physics, this solution is not a novelty. One knows at least two similar cases: the absolute zero of the temperature and the speed of light.

-Lucrèce: But time? It(he) has no existence in itself. They are things and their drainage which make sensitive past, present, the future. To anybody, it is necessary him(it,her) to admit, time is smelt independently of the movement of things or their rest.

-Mallarmé: The virgin, the long-lived and the beautiful today.

-Malraux: The 21è century will be religious or will not be.

-Mann: The reviviscence of the sense(direction) of duration had weakened; already days began to fly away, and they made him(it), although each of them étirât in a wait(expectation) ceaselessly renewed, and gonflât of sensations, silent and secret... Yes, time is a peculiar enigma; how to clear up her(it)?

-Marc-Aurèle: Who saw the present things saw everything, all which occurred of any eternity and all which will be for the centuries of centuries; because any things arise from the same origin and from the same shape.

-McTaggart J.M.E.: - Nothing is really present, past or future. Nothing is really earlier or later than whatever it is, or temporarily simultaneous with regard to him. Nothing changes really; and nothing is really in the time. Every time when we perceive something in the time - what is our only way for our experience(experiment) to perceive-, we perceive him(it) more or less such as it(he) is not ".

-Merleau-Ponty: - consciousness spreads(displays) or establishes(constitutes) time; she(it) stops finally being locked into the present.

-Temporality temporalise as avenir-qui-va-au-passé-en-venant-au-présent.

-Michaux: It(he) opens the window, one moment later, return several hours of flight(theft).

-Milne: We can not catch one minute who(which) passes by and to put her(it) next to next minute.

-Minkowski: theories on the space and time when I am going to expose(explain) you germinated on the ground of the experimental Science, and it is there that lives(lies) their force. They are radically new. Henceforth the notions of space in itself, and time in itself, are only shadows carried(worn) by a vaster reality which acquires an autonomous existence only because it reflects certain type of union among the two.

-Molière: Let us see, Sir, time does not make anything for the affair(business).

-Nash O.: Whereas the lady threads her bottom,

The lady that she was takes off.

-Newton: although time, space, place and movement are very known with all, one conceives them collectively only in relation in sensitive things. It is advisable to distinguish these quantities in absolute and relative, true and visible, mathematical and vulgar.

Absolved, true and mathematical time, which is without relation in whatever it is of outside, in himself(itself) and due to the nature pours uniformly: one calls him(it) also "duration". Relative, visible and vulgar time is quite sensitive and external - which(who) is precise or not - of duration and whom(which) one uses usually in the place of true time. Such are hour, in daytime, on month, the year.

-Nietzsche: - existence is only a continuous succession of past events, a thing(matter) which lives to deny and to destroy(annul) himself herself, to contradict himself ceaselessly.

-Nothing happens outside time... Force can not stop(arrest).

-The character of the set(group) of the world is of any eternity that of the chaos, in reason not of the absence of necessity, but the absence of order, joint(articulation), shape, beauty, wisdom...

-To fertilize past and to give birth to the future, that such is my present.

-. Moments of eternity...

-One can die to be immortal. (So spoke Zarathoustra)

-Nogué: The support possesses the determination of past; the run-up, the indecision of the future.

-Ovidius: Tempus edax rerum; time wastes(destroys) everything.

-Parménide: Listening and hold(retain) my words which will learn you which are the two only ways of investigation that one can conceive. The first says that the Being is and that it is not possible that he is not. It is the road of the certainty, because she(it) accompanies the truth. The other one, it is: the Being is not and inevitably Non-Etre is. This way is a étrit path where one can not learn anything. Because one can not seize by the spirit Non-Etre, because it is except our reach; one can not express him(it) neither by words; indeed it is the same thing(matter) as to think and to be.

Of any necessity, it is necessary to say and to think that the Being is, because he is the Being. As for Non-Etre, it is not anything, assertion which I invite you well to weigh.

... There is not to dread that ever one proves you that what is is not. And you take away your spirit of this way of search.

We have a single road to be crossed(be gone through): the Being is. And there is a crowd of signs that the Being is incréé, immortal, because only he is complete, immovable and eternal. One can not say that it(he) was or that it(he) will be, because it(he) is at the same moment quite complete in the present, one, continuous. Indeed, which birth to attribute(award) to him(her)? How and by which means to justify the development? I shall not let with you either say or think that the Being is not. Because if it(he) came from anything, which necessity had provoked its appearance either later or earlier? Indeed the Being has neither birth, nor beginning. So so it is necessary that he is absolutely or is not at all. No power will persuade me to let say that of Non-Etre could be born something next to him.

Everything is full to be.

-Pascal: - The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

- Time is of this sort. Who will be able to him(it,her) define? And why to begin him(it), because all the people conceive what one wants to say by speaking about time, without one indicates(appoints) him(it) of advantage?

- There are very various opinions getting(touching) the essence of time.

- The time of this life is only one moment.

-Peeters B.: - brilliant, intellectual and complex Subject certainly, but fascinating. By him, the man doubtless tries to escape the terrible constraint which limits and bounds his life: Time. Fundamental subject of the science fiction, journey in the time was the object of major and essential novels.

-Poe:-... Now, however that fate

Approach and what hours inhale hardly,

The sands of Time change in golden grains(beads).

- I appe al to all the lovers of exact hour.

-Platon: time is the mobile image of immovable eternity.

-Poincaré: We have no direct intuition of two intervals of time.

-Pope: Agree at first that every man differs of quite other, secondly whom(that), bending over backwards ceaselessly, he does not differ less from himself(itself).

-Prigogine and Stengers: physics today does not deny any more time. She(it) recognizes the irreversible time of evolutions towards the balance, the time given rhythm by the structures drive of which feeds on the world which crosses them, forking(turning off) time of evolutions by instability and development of fluctuations, and even this tiny time which shows the indecision of macroscopic physical evolutions.

-Proust: - It is that generally, more the time which separates us from what we propose is short, more it(he) seems to us long, because we apply him(her) more brief measures or simply because we think of measuring him(it).

-. This cause, I guessed her(it) by comparing among them these different happy impressions(printings) and which had among them this of common that I tried(felt) them at the same moment in the current moment and in a remote moment when the noise of the spoon on the plate, the disparity of paving stones, the taste of the madeleine went as far as encroaching the past on the present, to hesitate me to know in which of two I was; in the truth, the being who then in me enjoyed this impression(printing) enjoyed her(it) in what she(it) had of common with day former(ancient) and maintaining, in what she(it) had of extra-temporal, a being who appeared only when, by one of these identities between the present and the past, he could be in the only environment(middle) where he pût to live, to enjoy the essence of things, that is completely except time. (In search of lost time)

-Agile and evaded time.

- There are optical illusions in the time as in the space.

-Arabic proverb: Lived, if you can, the eternal in the hour which passes.

-Spanish proverb: last hour sounds the same for all.

-French proverb: time will cure you troubles which time gives.

-Indian proverb: The time which wastes(destroys) everything, will waste(destroy) time.

-Italian proverb: The man measures time, and time measures the man.

-virgin: It(he) can of the duration when the packaging is not there different of the contents.

-Ronsard: time goes away, time goes away, Madam,

Tired time not, but we go away

-Rosnay: The buckle of feedback looks like so a snake which bites itself the tail. But such a buckle of circular causality must not be confused(merged) with a cycle.

A cycle remains always subjected to the arrow of time unidirectionnel. There is infinite rehearsal of the same sequence of events. There is no future in a cycle. A cyclic succession can be measured with regard to any clock. While, in a buckle of circular causality, it is the arrow of the time which seems to close on herself(itself). One can not really say any more that time " passes by ". It(he) is balanced with something else. There is, in a sense , conservation of time. (The macroscope, p. 241)

-Roupnel: The space and the time seem to us infinite only when they do not exist.

-Rucker R.: - The reasons to spread(push aside) journey in the time rest(base) on one a priori: " It(he) can not appear of contradictions in the world; journey in the time and journey SL ( supraluminique ) lead(drive) to contradictions; so it(he) can not there have of journey in the time and journey supraluminique in our world ".

This argument presents three weak points.

1. World itself is paradoxical

2. It(he) could exist a " police of time " which(who) would prevent the use of the machine to create a paradox.

3. It(he) exists the possibility of the multiple universes, even though naturally, strictly speaking, a journey in a parallel world is not at all a journey in the time ".

-" At certain level, these paradoxes are a little more than intellectual entertainments ".

-Russell: No event returns.

-Saint-Augustin: - That Is it so that time? If nobody asks me for it, I know him(it); but if one asks me for it and if I like to explain it, I do not know him(it) any more.

-How so, these two times, the past and the future, are they, because past is not any more and than future is not still ? As for the present, if it(he) was always present, if he was not going to join past, he would not be of time, it would be eternity. So, if present, to be of time, has to join past, how can we declare that it is, he who can not be that by stopping being? So that what authorizes us to assert that time is, it is that it tends not to be any more.

-Time is not the movement of a body.

-Time does not exist without a change which takes place by the movement. (Confessions)

-Saint-Exupéry: It is good that the time which passes by does not appear to use(wear out) us and to lose us, as the handle of sand, but to carry out us. It is good that time is a construction.

-Sartre: - time is a separation of a special type: a division which gathers(reunites). The being and the nothingness.

-Time eats away and digs, it separates, it runs away. And it is still as separator - by separating the man of its punishment or the object of his punishment - that he cures.

-Schopenhauer: The common person worries only to spend time; the man of talent, to use(employ) him(it).

-Scrope G.: The present basic idea in all our searches and which accompanies every new observation, the sound which in the ear of the student of the Nature seems constantly to echo in every continent, it is - Time! - Time! - time!

-Sextus Empiricus: time is an appearance which appears under the day aspect night and.

-Shakespeare: - To be or not to be, such is question. (Hamlet)

- Time has the same speed for everybody.

- Time is broken. (Hamlet, I, V)

-Shaw: Hegel was right, when he said that we learn of the history that the people never learn anything of the history.

-Shelley: life, such a dome of multicolored glass illuminates sensational whiteness of the eternity.

-Silesius Has. : You are yourself time, your senses(directions) are your clock.

-Spinoza: - to determine duration, we compare her(it) with the duration of the things which have an invariable and determined movement, and this comparison is called time. So time is not a disorder(affection) of things, but only a simple mode to think or, as we already said it, a being reason: it is a mode to think being of use to the explanation of duration.

-What is eternity: Here we shall say only that it is the attribute under whom(which) we conceive the infinite existence of God.

What is duration: It is the attribute under which we conceive the existence of the created things as they persevere in their current existence.

To determine duration, we compare her(it) with the duration of the things which have an invariable and definite movement and this comparison is called time.

What is time: So time is not a disorder(affection) of things, but only a simple mode to think, or, as we has already said it, a being reason.

It is the mode to think which(who) is of use to the explanation of duration... Duration is conceived as bigger and smaller, as consisted of parts, and finally (that) it is an attribute of the existence, but not of some essence.

-As soon as one will have conceived abstractly Duration and as soon as, confusing(merging) her(it) in time, one will have begun to divide her(it) into parts, it(he) will become impossible to understand(include) in which way one hour, for example, can pass. So that she(it) passes, indeed, it will be necessary that half passes at first, then half besides and then half of this new rest, and deducting so half besides, one will never be able to arrive at the end of hour. It is for it that a lot(many), not having accustomed to distinguish the beings of reason of the real things, dared to claim that Duration consisted of moments, and so, to avoid Charybdis, they fell in Scylla. Because it(he) returns in the same to compose the Duration of moments and to want to form a number by adding zéros. (Treated(handled) as the reform of the understanding)

-Stevenson R.L.: There is a fable which gets(touches) The inmost fleetingness of The life: The fable of The monk which went away in wood, listened a bird beginning its song, listened to one or two trills, and to The return met himself foreign to The door of its convent; because he had been absent during fifty years and in all his companions survived only The only one to recognize him(it) ". ( The Lantern Bearers)

-Totus: duration shows itself through two types of movements: an universal extensive movement and a punctual extensive movement. Time is a representation, as measure or as represent. Duration exists and time does not exist.

-Valéry: - order supposes certain disorder as he comes to reduce.

- Reality can express itself only by the absurd.

- The time of the people is the folded eternity.

- I have b adly in my time.

-Versins P.: - Naturally it(he) can seem simplistic to reduce the essence of SCI-FI to the subject of the journey in the time, with or without machine, and to the uchronie and to the guess, but it is important to take position and to establish a point of departure which will be very useful, even though it is a question of qualifying the outlines of it (" Encyclopedia of the Utopia and the Science fiction ").

Vian B.: Our time is precious,

Let us lose rather yours!

-Virilio: If formerly, to allow to pass time served for seeing indirectly time pass, duration being a progressive unveiling of events, today , with the relativity einsteinienne as "exhibition", generalized optics, it is not any more progressive character, extensivité of the time which serves for seeing, but extensive character, maximum intensivité of the speed of light which fills(performs) this office.

-Watzlawick: - It returns that at the back of fifteen years (what sets him(her), let us say, some minutes), stop(arrest) the machine and in lot(fate), putting back(handing) so in the class(course) of time in a point where it is fifteen years old itself. If it(he) contents with looking surrounding without arousing any effect - to know, without fitting at all into the causality by an action or a communication - there will not be anything of strange. But as soon as it(he) will begin in interagir, funny and disconcerting consequences will follow.

-Wells: a cube can have a real existence without lasting during a some time? Manifestly, any real body has to extend in four directions(managements). It(he) has to have Length, Width, Thickness and... Duration. But by a natural infirmity of the flesh, we tilt to neglect this fact. There are really four dimensions: three that we call the three plans of the Space, and a fourth: Time. One tends however to establish an artificial distinction between first three dimensions and last one, because it turns out that we become aware of what surrounds us that by intermittence, whereas time passes by, of past towards the future, since the beginning till the end of our life.

It is only another way of looking at time. There is no difference between time and each of three dimensions of the space, without our consciousness moves with him. (The machine to investigate time)

-Wheeler: time is the craftiness that found nature so that everything does not pass at the same time.

-Whitehead: The obstinacy of a marble block is an event. Nature appears at us as a future.

-Wittgenstein: - time contains from now on in itself the possibility of any future. The space of human movements is infinite as time.

-Naturally word "present" is not either in its place here. Indeed in which measure can one say of the reality that she(it) is present? Only if one coats him(it) ceaselessly in a time which is foreign to him(her). In itself and for one, she(it) is not present. On the contrary, it is she(it) who(which) much rather contains a time.

-Wolfe T.:... Time, dark time, secret time, which passes by for ever as a river...

-Zénon: There is point of movement, because it is necessary that the motive arrives in the middle of its route(course) before reaching(affecting) the end.

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