 | John Clemens, Scott Dalrymple - 2005 - Počet stránok 232
...has been a challenging quest, giving us a new respect for St. Augustine's lament in his Confessions, "What then, is time? If no one asks me, I know. If I wish to explain it to someone who asks, I know it not." Yet five years of research, much of it gleaned from the narratives... | |
 | Stephen K. George - 2005 - Počet stránok 428
...truth, something that onlv occurs when we unlock ourselves "to lives and meanings other than " our own. If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks. I know not. — St. Augustine, Confessions In the above statement, St. Augustine is... | |
 | Vesselin Petkov - 2005 - Počet stránok 320
...time is different, the situation becomes reminiscent of Saint Augustine's confusion over time [50]: "If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not." Most people believe that this difference is evident from the fact that... | |
 | Randi Rashkover, C. C. Pecknold - 2006 - Počet stránok 265
...difficult as it is to contemplate eternity, we also are far from comprehending what we mean by time. "What, then, is time? If no one asks me I know; If I wish to explain it to one that asks, I know not" (194). Augustine describes the reality of time as a moment that passes before we... | |
 | Donald Morris - 2006 - Počet stránok 470
...Surely we understand it when we talk about it, and also understand it when we hear others talk about it. What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I want to explain it to someone who does ask me, I do not know.7 Of all the elements of opportunity,... | |
 | Brent Richards - 2006 - Počet stránok 252
...incredible exactitude the words of St Augustine (AD 354-430), when he speculates about the nature of time: 'What then is time? If no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to a questioner, I do not know. We measure time, but how can we measure what does... | |
 | Jerry Walls - 2007 - Počet stránok 302
...asked to define "time," would probably respond much as the philosopher Augustine (AD 354-430) did: "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know: if I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not."10 Our rough-and-ready theoretical understanding of time is of something infinite and constantly... | |
 | Jennifer Ouellette - 2006 - Počet stránok 356
...that's the hallmark of a true champion. TIME GOES WONKY Relativistic Tricks of the TemporaI Trade "What is time? If no one asks me, I know. If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not." —AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO T JK im L ime must seem so irrelevant to an eternal being. In "I Will Remember... | |
 | Steven Kepnes - 2007 - Počet stránok 248
...as it is to contemplate eternity, we are also far from comprehending what we mean by time. He asks, "What, then, is time? If no one asks me I know; If I wish to explain it to one that asks, I know not."10 Augustine describes the reality of time as a moment that passes before humans... | |
 | João Biehl, Byron Good, Arthur Kleinman - 2007 - Počet stránok 477
...Press. The Vanishing Subject The Many Faces of Subjectivity AMELIE OKSENBERG RORTY Augustine says, "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I want to explain it, I do not know. And yet I know" (Confessions, 11. 14). Augustine introduces his... | |
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What then is time? If no one asks me. I know; if I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not... 
