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Metaphysics
What is time: a feature of the world, a form of the mind, or the measure of motion?
Time is the moving image of eternity: the ordered succession that mirrors the unchanging Forms.
Time is the number of motion with respect to before and after.
Time is the life of the Soul in movement; eternity is Intellect at rest in itself.
Time exists only in the mind: as memory of the past, attention to the present, and expectation of the future.
Eternity is the simultaneous whole of interminable life; time is the measure of changing beings, aevum between them.
Absolute, true, and mathematical time flows equably without relation to anything external.
Time is not a thing out there but the a priori form of inner sense: the form under which we experience anything at all.
Time is the negative element in Nature; Spirit is what time becomes when it grasps itself as history.
We do not experience bare instants but a 'specious present': a felt duration with fringes of past and future.
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