A card from a free library — ask anything, no account, works offline. Every card carries its source.
Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_026: What now is clear and plain is, that neither things to come nor past are.
augustine confessions
What now is clear and plain is, that neither things to come nor past are. Nor is it properly said, "there be three times, past, present, and to come": yet perchance it might be properly said, "there be three times; a present of things past, a present of things present, and a present of things future." For these three do exist in some sort, in the soul, but otherwhere do I not see them; present of things past, memory; present of things present, sight; present of things future, expectation. If thus we be permitted to speak, I see three times, and I confess there are three. Let it be said too, "there be three times, past, present, and to come": in our incorrect way. See, I object not, nor gainsay, nor find fault, if what is so said be but understood, that neither what is to be, now is, nor what is past. For but few things are there, which we speak properly, most things improperly; still the things intended are understood.
- same section → Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_007: Yet suffer me to speak unto Thy mercy, me, dust and ashes.
- same section → Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_033: Does not my soul most truly confess unto Thee, that I do measure times?
- on the shelf of → The classics — the great books, kept whole — a member of the classics shelf in the keeping
Is this card incomplete? Tell the library — it will call out for more ↗