Time
idea · 10 works · 11 mentions · 14 anchored passages
time · kāla · Kāla · age · all times · day and night · fate · fine [timê] · infinite age · kala
spoken of as
2 expressionsKāla“Time”2 mentions
Tarkasaṃgraha (Sanskrit) · Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana (Sanskrit)
Time is the cause of usage such as 'past' and the like.
Power of Time and fate“Kāla”1 mention
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit)
"The power of Time is exceedingly great over all beings, Lakṣmaṇa;
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The doctrine that Time or fate governs all beings without exception, gods and heroes included.
"The power of Time is exceedingly great over all beings, Lakṣmaṇa;
"Heroes, the mighty, those skilled in arms on the battlefield — when overtaken by Time they sink down like embankments of sand.
Even the mightiest beings and the gods, O bull among men — no embodied creature in all existence is released from the power of fate.
Tarkasaṃgraha
Substance that is the cause of temporal usage such as 'past'; one, all-pervading, eternal.
Time is the cause of usage such as 'past' and the like.
Timaeus
The measure of celestial motion, instituted by the demiurge through the ordered courses of sun, moon, and stars as a moving image of eternity.
and a year, when the sun has accomplished and journeyed through his whole orbit.
By reason, then, and by the divine mind, the course of the sun and moon was devised for the origin of time .
nature should so turn it, that the moon's course should circle the earth most nearly, and next above the earth should be the orbit of the sun.
Iliad
The Greek concept of honor-price or compensation, explicitly glossed in the translation as the fine owed by the losing side.
let them moreover pay such fine [ timê] to the Achaeans as shall be agreed upon, in testimony among those that shall be born hereafter.
therefore give back Helen with all her wealth, and pay such fine [ timê] as shall be agreed upon, in testimony among them that shall be born hereafter.
And if Priam and his sons refuse such fine [ timê] when Alexander has fallen, then will I stay here and fight on till the war reaches its completion [ telos].
De Rerum Natura
Time, analyzed by Lucretius not as an independently existing substance but as something perceived from the motions and rest of things, hence an accident rather than a property.
Even time exists not of itself;
No man, we must admit, feels time itself,
Reads out of things what happened long ago,
Letters to Lucilius
The one true possession of a person, which is stolen, wasted, or hoarded, central to Letter 1.
time alone is ours.
Still, I would rather you kept your own, and you will be making a good start in time.
Show me anyone who sets some price upon his time, who reckons the worth of a day, who understands that he is dying daily.
On Benefits
The dimension of past, present, and future whose neglect (favoring hope over memory) Seneca identifies as underlying ingratitude.
4 Then, because none of us knows any time but that which is at the very moment passing, few turn their minds back to the past;
On the Shortness of Life
The Stoic conception of a full life as the integration of past, present, and future, achieved uniquely by the wise man.
The bringing together of all times into one makes his life long.
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana
Time (kāla), debated as to its cause and nature, ultimately resolved as constituted by a stream of instants grounded in prakṛti.
Therefore, by necessity, Time is of the nature of the instant alone;
Of creation, neither God (Īśvara) is the cause, nor [mere] nature (svabhāva), nor Time (kāla).
And if [the instant] is held to be something over and above those, [then] that is not Great Time or ākāśa;
Viṣṇu Smṛti
The impersonal, all-consuming force that destroys even gods and Grandfathers and determines the moment of death for every being
for time is indeed insurmountable.
Every being, overcome by time, is led to the next world;
Time has no one who is dear, nor is there anyone it hates;