Late Classical Introspection
The Confessions
Saint Augustine of Hippo • Spiritual Autobiography on Time, Memory, and Grace
DAILY PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEMPLATION
Book XI • On Time and Eternity
"What then is time? If no one ask of me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asketh, I know not: yet say I boldly, that I know, that if nothing were passing away, there would be no past time; and if nothing were coming, there would be no time to come."
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Saint Augustine of Hippo: The Confessions
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