Famous quotes containing the words clock and/or purposes:
“He makes his voyage too late, perhaps, by a true water clock who delays too long.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one who obeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word accident makes sense.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
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