thinking about time
with Yogi Berra, Tennessee Williams, Einstein, & Augustine
Pondering time.
One of the better known “Yogi-isms” of baseball’s Yogi Berra: “It’s deja vu all over again.”
A line in the Tennessee Williams play, Glass Menagerie: “The future becomes the present, the present becomes the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don’t plan for it.”
Albert Einstein said, “The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubborn persistent illusion.”
“Perhaps it is better to say: there are three times; a present of things past, a present of things present, a present of future things. For these three exist in the mind, and I find them nowhere else: the present of things past is memory; the present of things present is sight; the present of things future is expectation.” * —Augustine
*Confessions, Book Eleven, Chapter XX (F. J. Sheed Translation)
How about that…2 Corry PA replies!
And then there’s always TS Eliot: Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present…