“What, then, is time? If no one ask of me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not.”

— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, Book XI (translation by J. G. Pilkington)

About Augustine of Hippo

354 – 430

Early Christian theologian and philosopher, author of "Confessions".

“Love, and do what thou wilt.”

“An unjust law is no law at all.”

“Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.”

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”

“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”

“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

“The whole is more than the sum of its parts.”

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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”