Do you agree with the phrase: "Time reminds man of his own limitations"?

Question

Why do you come to this conclusion?

Answer 1

Absolutely. The more things progress and the more technology we get, the more we realize all the things that we are not, and may never be capable of.

Answer 2

Perhaps, from one extreme paradox.

Time from one paradox shows mans biggest limitation, mortality, that all opportunities all things done have their end. It is transitory and strange irony to work so hard yet given the effort put in our time maybe up. It reminds man that they have to take flight for opportunity so it can approve moments for greatness to shine through, or moments of sadness as it can reveal our inability to cope and make us complacent under the moment which calls us towards action. I suppose man sees that his life really is controlled by laws and we only have moments where we can collapse on an opportunity and seize it to invoke other things down the road. I suppose in some ways it could show our greatest limitation and yet at the same time our greatest strength, if we consciously invoke things. Like a ripple effect. I suppose this question comes down to the old saying from Hamlet, "To be or not..."

I think it is both a limitation and our greatest tool. Like whatever you plant will produce, I suppose this would be using this understanding of ones limitation as their strength. Every I suppose doesn't always have to constitute an unfinished picture, perhaps what we see as duality is actual a third force which makes both equally true.

Anyways, at the other extreme paradox, time is merely a dimension of mind.

Answer 3

i agree with that quote. i think that as a person, we are capable of doing most anything and everything if we truly want to. but then, despite these capacity, there is also the factor of time to be considered in the picture. with time, we are reminded that life is lived in one straight line i.e. we cant go back and change the past and we cant bring back time either. so with time, it makes people think that there is just so much we can do at one moment, then after that moment, its gone. that in itself is a limitation which we cant do anything about (unless someone builds a time machine.)

i hope my 2 cents there made the least bit of sense.

Answer 4

Who knows how much trouble we could get into if we had the time to do it? I like what one preacher said once "that Adam got a Seiko watch when he sinned". The "work" God gave him to do afterwords wasn't "the curse" it was the "sweat" that he would have to endure. Limitations aren't evil, they give us a frame of reference to make our plans and execute them. If we didn't have some kind of "time constraints" most of us would never accomplish anything. We must always live and labor in "the now" if we ever want to meet our goals "tomorrow".

Answer 5

Yes, I think it does. Though, it is not the only thing.

I think that the concept of time is hovering in our consciousness, and that we are aware we only have so much time. Hence the sayings....So little time, so much to do; Time is running out; time to go; time clocks; timing is everything; etc. When someone dies, we say it was his time to go, almost as if time itself determined his passing.

In a way, though, it may be positive, in that we have the opportunity to accomplish good in our lives, and if we procrastinate, we may not complete it.

So, make hay while the sun shines ;-).

Answer 6

Yes.

Time is the frame in which we need to complete a task that largely outdoes the frame. So we can only complete it in parts.

That's our limits.