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"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

"Time is inexplicable because it moves " clicks away " at steady increments, while increasing the past and bringing the future into the present. Time has a necessary affinity with both heaven and the earthly reality. 'Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it is the soul of the world.' Plato said that time and heaven must be coexistent. Without time nothing can be created or generated in the universe, nor is anything intelligible without eternity. Time is no accident or affection, but the cause, power, and principle of the symmetry and order that confines all created beings, by which the animated nature of the universe moves."

"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

"You may need an additional money to make things happen and have it, but you can have an additional time anywhere. Value your time; as you wait, it is passing!"
Explore more quotes by Philip Seymour Hoffman

"My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise."

"When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about."

"There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem."

"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool."

"It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other."

"I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got."

"Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends."

"People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside."
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