is a word like a bomb through the window.

The word 'now' is like a bomb through the window

is all that one sees, for tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

is an artificial abstraction, a spurious concept. The distinction between before and after is a result of projecting time into space, rendering succession into the form of a continuous line or a chain.

now' is merely an artificial abstraction, a 'spurious concept.' As Bergson put it in Time and Free Will: [When] we project time into space, we express duration in terms of extensity, and succession thus takes the form of a continuous line or a chain, the parts of which touch without penetrating one another. [Thus we create a distinction between] before and after [separated] by one and the same instant.' Henri Bergson (2001). Time and Free Will.

is not time, but rather an attribute of time.

Accordingly, Aristotle holds that the 'now' is not time, but rather an attribute of time. Hence Heidegger claims that time is for Aristotle horizontal in nature: 'time is this, namely, something counted which shows itself in and for regard to the before and after in motion or, in short, something counted in connection with motion as encountered in the horizon of earlier and later' (BPP 235/GP 353). Indeed, for Aristotle, time is a measure of motion, which always happens in the present. The latter, as the 'now,' serves to distinguish the past from the future.

is nothing but the ghost of space haunting the reflective consciousness.

nothing but the ghost of space haunting the reflective consciousness.' (p.101)

is a moving target. If we later look at last night's written truth that 'now is night' then we'll have to say that the written truth has become stale.

TO THE QUESTION 'WHAT IS NOW' 'NOW IS NIGHT' (AND WRITE IT ON A PIECE OF PAPER) : T o the question: 'What is Now'', let us answer, e.g. 'Now is Night.' In order to test the truth of this self certainty a simple experiment will suffice. We write down this truth... a truth cannot lose anything by being written down, any more than it can lose anything through our preserving it. If now, this noon, we look again at the written truth we shall have to say that it has become stale. (hegel 'phenomenology' 60)

is this eternal moment which is the destination of life.

The destination of life is this eternal moment. Alan Watts

is that that there is nothing else than it. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.

There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that' There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

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