Tense Meaning

Famous quotes containing the words tense and/or meaning:

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

“All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of the words by which they are expressed, or to attend to their literal instead of their metaphorical sense. They are already supernatural philosophy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)