Tense Particle

Famous quotes containing the words tense and/or particle:

    “Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part and particle of God.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)