#2,774

The spectacle of humanity does not acquire a certain dignity except thanks to the distortion it undergoes in history due to time.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 445

#2,735

The realism of photography is false: it omits in its representation of the object its past, its transcendence, its future.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 439

#2,467

If time, subjectively, makes us change taste, it also, objectively, makes things change flavor.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 367

#2,418

One must live for the moment and for eternity.
Not for the disloyalty of time.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 390

#2,383

Given the rapid obsolescence of everything in our age, man lives today in a psychologically briefer time.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 385

#2,066

Whoever dares to ask that the moment stop and time suspend its flight surrenders himself to God; whoever celebrates future harmonies sells himself to the devil.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 335

#1,863

Time distills the truth in the still of art.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 305

#1,526

Our soul has a future.
Humanity has none.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 255

#1,301

Everything, in the individual, comes forth from the intersection of space and time.
Except the individual himself.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 224

#1,135

Man today does not live in space and time.
But in geometry and chronometers.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 200

#1,025

Values, like the soul, are born in time, but do not belong to it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 183

#959

We should resign ourselves to the fact that nothing lasts, but refuse to hasten anything’s demise.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 173

#953

After the passage of a few years, we only hear the voice of the person who spoke without any shrillness.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 172

#940

Time modifies the topography of our convictions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 170

#790

Nothing endures for certain and only instances count, but the instant reserves its splendor for someone who imagines it to be eternal.
The only thing that has value is the ephemeral which appears immortal.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 142

#734

There are only instants.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 133

#523

Each moment has its own law, and not just the law which binds it to all other moments.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 100

#122

Human nobility is a work that time occasionally fashions in our daily ignominy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 41

#89

Only one thing is not in vain: the sensual perfection of the moment.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 37

#61

The momentary beauty of the instant is the only thing in the universe which accords with the deepest desire of our souls.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 33