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Voices In Time

1781 | Königsberg

The Foundation of Our Intuitions

Immanuel Kant determines that in Time, all reality of phenomena is possible. More

Voices In Time

1906 | Dunsany

Declaration of War

Time hurled five years against them, and the years passed over their heads.More

Voices In Time

1925 | Dayton, TN

Like Day and Night

Clarence Darrow determines the age of the Earth.More

Voices In Time

c. 1503 | London

Raising the Stakes

Thomas More encounters fame, time, and eternity.More

Voices In Time

c. 50 BC | Judaea

Literal Interpretation

How can a man sleep or be like a dreamer for seventy years?More

Voices In Time

c. 195 | Rome

Hacked-Up Days

In ancient Rome, we’re all slaves to the sundial. More

Voices In Time

2006 | New Jersey

Not a Millisecond to Spare

Michael Lewis times the trades using the latest technology.More

Voices In Time

1916 | Berlin

Forcing a Reevaluation

Albert Einstein makes a breakthrough.More

Voices In Time

1899 | Chicago

Time Well Spent

Thorstein Veblen invents the leisure class.More

Voices In Time

1317 | Tabriz

A Fancied Dot

Mahmud Shabistari stands alone in a wide desert.More

Voices In Time

1851 | Frankfurt

The Blessed Calm of Nonexistence

Schopenhauer considers life’s disappointments.More

Voices In Time

1895 | London

A Peculiar Sensation

H.G. Wells goes time-traveling.More

Voices In Time

1805 | Grasmere

Golden Gleam of Youth

The moment William Wordsworth will never forget.More

Voices In Time

1874 | Basel

Man vs. Animal

Friedrich Nietzsche separates the historical and unhistorical.More

Voices In Time

1784 | Paris

Daylight Savings

Benjamin Franklin suggests using sunshine instead of candles.More

Voices In Time

1849 | St. Petersburg

Under the Gun

Fyodor Dostoevsky is granted a stay of execution.More

Voices In Time

1871 | Oxford

Tomorrow and Yesterday

Alice learns it’s impossible to get jam today.More

Voices In Time

c. 330 BC | Athens

Of Things That Exist

Aristotle struggles to define the present moment.More

Voices In Time

1903 | Philadelphia

Time-Management Skills

Why should I work hard when a lazy fellow gets the same pay?More

Voices In Time

1966 | Australia

Now or Never

Time is running out, and time is close at hand.More

Voices In Time

1889 | Hartford, CT

The Best Is Yet to Come

Mark Twain raises a glass to Walt Whitman.More

Voices In Time

1863 | Amherst, MA

On the Contrary

For Emily Dickinson, time does not heal everything.More

Voices In Time

1889 | Paris

Pure Duration

Henri Bergson examines the time of the mind.More

Voices In Time

1742 | Welwyn

Toward the Precipice of Death

As Atlas groaned, the world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.More

Voices In Time

c. 1590 | London

Moment of Reckoning

Christopher Marlowe conjures the Devil.More

Voices In Time

1872 | London

A Race Against Time

A tour of the world in eighty days? Jules Verne should like nothing better!More

Voices In Time

1854 | Concord, MA

The Forsaking of Works

Henry David Thoreau adjusts to life by the pond.More

Voices In Time

1609 | London

Not Fade Away

William Shakespeare compares thee to a summer’s day.More

Voices In Time

1919 | Pangbourne

The Incarnate Now Is Supreme

Poetry is the voice of the far future or of the magnificent past.More

Voices In Time

2005 | Cambridge

Stephen Hawking Travels Back in Time

In the beginning, there was...More

Voices In Time

2012 | United States

Punching In

Mac McClelland is on the clock and on her feet.More

Voices In Time

c. 524 | Pavia

Infinite Path

God abides for ever in an eternal present.More

Voices In Time

c. 1825 | Berlin

Living History

Hegel takes recorded history to task.More

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