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Time is understood until one tries to explain it, yet without things passing, coming or being there would be no past, future or present
Drawn from what Augustine of Hippo said
What Augustine of Hippo actually said
- Augustine of Hippo Christian philosopher and theologian (354 to 430)
If no one asks me, I know: if I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not: yet I say boldly that I know, that if nothing passed away, time past were not; and if nothing were coming, a time to come were not; and if nothing were, time present were not.
Where this was said
↗Confessions (tr. E. B. Pusey, 1838)gutenberg.org
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