Meditações - sobre o tempo, ninguém se entende...

Agreed that time shows or hides itself in the immensity of the restless atoms that constitute the universe—in the rising and setting of the sun, the movement of tides and the migration of birds, the opening of flowers and the closing of banks—, they [physicists and philosophers, of astronomers and accountants, poets and historians] divide as to whether the past is dead or alive, the future a beginning or an end, time wandering around in circles or moving on and out along a straight and steady line.

Lewis H. Lapham