Julian Barbour quotes

“My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.”
-- Julian Barbour

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“There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now.”
-- Julian Barbour

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“What really intrigues me is that the totality of all possible Nows of any definite kind has a very special structure. You can think of it as a landscape or country. Each point in the country is a Now.”
-- Julian Barbour

Source : "The End of Time". Interview with John Brockman, www.edge.org. August 15, 1999.

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“If nothing happened, if nothing changed, time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change we see occurring all around us, not time. In fact, time doesn't exist.”
-- Julian Barbour

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“Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting.”
-- Julian Barbour

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“The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.”

“The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.”

“True happiness comes from the realization that God has already made available everything we will ever need.”

“But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip.”

“I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.”

“Time passes. That's for sure.”

Source : Eileen Myles (2016). “Chelsea Girls”, p.93, Serpent's Tail

“Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.”

Source : "Marc Bolan: 'I am the Cosmic Dancer who dances his way out of the womb' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Keith Altham, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2012.

“I keep hoping that as time passes by, we’ll regain the ease between us, but part of me knows it’s futile. There’s no going back.”

“(Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become the very bedrock of our being.”

“Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.”