Kairological time Quotes

“Lefebvre summarises this march of clock-time through society and nature (1991: 95–6). He argues that the lived time experienced in and through nature has gradually disappeared. Time is no longer something that is visible and inscribed within space. It has been replaced by measuring instruments, clocks, which are separate from natural and social space. Time becomes a resource, differentiated off from social space. It is consumed, deployed and exhausted. There is the expulsion of lived (and kairological) time as ‘clock-time’ dominates. Lefebvre describes this changing nature of time in terms of metaphor. In pre-modern societies lived time is encrypted into space as in a tree-trunk, and like a tree-trunk shows the mark of those years that it has taken to grow. While in modern societies time is absorbed into the city such that lived time is invisible or reduced to its methods of measurement. Lived time ‘has been murdered bysociety’ (Lefebvre 1991: 96).”

“Every human being is either wasting time, spending time or investing time.”

“To prevent your time from just melting into vanity, you must race against time and stand in the way of time so you could convert it to tangible products.”

“The greatest wealth in the world is the wealth of time. There is nothing more precious than the wealth of time. If you could realize that everything is made out of time, then you can convert your free time into anything you want.”

“Since life is in time, since life is in seconds, minutes and hours; that means to waste time is to waste life. To lose time is to lose a life. So don’t waste time!”

“Money is a by-product of time. Money is the time that is well converted. Therefore, time is the raw material from which money is made.”

“If you know what the treasure of time is worth, if you know that time is a resource, then you will actually be able to convert your time into any product you want.”

“If you have no product to show for your time, you are a time waster.”

“Time consciousness is the key to time conversion.”

“For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first begin to see time and life correctly. You must first understand that time is life and life is time.”