Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Dobson suggests time is constant while humans move through it, reversing the usual perception.
- In plain terms
- Time doesn't move; we are the ones passing through time.
- What can you take from it?
- View time as a constant while you are transient.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How does time feel to you?
Another view
It is a poetic abstraction with no scientific basis.
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