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St. Augustine
Confessions

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1 1, VI | have received from it what measure and fashion of being they 2 2, IV | already had in sufficient measure, and of much better quality. 3 2, V | because it has a certain measure of comeliness of its own 4 3, VII | according to custom but by the measure of the most perfect law 5 5, III | are and also the men who measure them, and the senses by 6 5, III | they perceive what they measure, and the intelligence whereby 7 5, III | discern the patterns of measure. Thus they know not that 8 5, III | wisdom is not a matter of measure.126 But the Only Begotten 9 5, IV | better than the man who can measure it and count all its branches, 10 5, IV | better than the one who can measure the heavens and number the 11 5, IV | things in number, weight, and measure.”132~ 12 8, X | capacity and might in some measure weigh the truth of so profound 13 9, XVII | my memory, full without measure of numberless kinds of things - 14 9, XXXIV | higher beauty, but not the measure of their use. Still, even 15 10, XV | been given you to feel and measure the periods of time. How, 16 10, XVI | others are shorter. We even measure how much longer or shorter 17 10, XVI | long as that other. But we measure the passage of time when 18 10, XVI | passage of time when we measure the intervals of perception. 19 10, XVI | perception. But who can measure times past which now are 20 10, XXI | have said, then, that we measure periods of time as they 21 10, XXI | then, as I was saying, we measure periods of time as they 22 10, XXI | answer: “I know because we measure. We could not measure things 23 10, XXI | we measure. We could not measure things that do not exist, 24 10, XXI | not exist.” But how do we measure present time since it has 25 10, XXI | no longer. But what do we measure, unless it is a time of 26 10, XXI | what “length,” then, do we measure passing time? Is it in the 27 10, XXI | has no length we cannot measure. Or is it in the past into 28 10, XXI | what is no longer we cannot measure.~ 29 10, XXIII | no time by which we might measure those rotations and say 30 10, XXIII | nature of time, by which we measure the motions of bodies, and 31 10, XXIII | for it is by time that we measure the circuit of the sun, 32 10, XXIV | when a body is moved, I measure by time how long it was 33 10, XXIV | it stopped, I could not measure the movement, except from 34 10, XXIV | and the norm by which we measure how long it takes is another 35 10, XXIV | sometimes stands still, we measure not only its motion but 36 10, XXVI | confess to thee that I do measure intervals of time? But what 37 10, XXVI | But what is it that I thus measure, O my God, and how is it 38 10, XXVI | that I do not know what I measure? I measure the motion of 39 10, XXVI | not know what I measure? I measure the motion of a body by 40 10, XXVI | the time itself I do not measure. But, truly, could I measure 41 10, XXVI | measure. But, truly, could I measure the motion of a body - how 42 10, XXVI | to that - unless I could measure the time in which it is 43 10, XXVI | moving?~How, then, do I measure this time itself? Do we 44 10, XXVI | this time itself? Do we measure a longer time by a shorter 45 10, XXVI | by a shorter time, as we measure the length of a crossbeam 46 10, XXVI | syllable is double. So also we measure the length of poems by the 47 10, XXVI | the short ones. We do not measure by pages - for in that way 48 10, XXVI | for in that way we would measure space rather than time - 49 10, XXVI | short one.”~But no certain measure of time is obtained this 50 10, XXVI | itself. For what is it I measure, I ask thee, O my God, when 51 10, XXVII | its continued flow. We can measure it only while it is sounding, 52 10, XXVII | can be measured. Let us measure it exactly; and let us say 53 10, XXVII | when it left off. For we measure the time interval itself 54 10, XXVII | be measured? And yet we measure times; not those which are 55 10, XXVII | no limit. Therefore, we measure neither times future nor 56 10, XXVII | passing by; and yet we do measure times.~35. Deus Creator 57 10, XXVII | By common sense, then, I measure a long syllable by a short 58 10, XXVII | it to the long one as a measure, so that I can discover 59 10, XXVII | same long syllable I do not measure as present, since I cannot 60 10, XXVII | present, since I cannot measure it until it is ended; but 61 10, XXVII | is it, then, that I can measure? Where is the short syllable 62 10, XXVII | short syllable by which I measure? Where is the long one that 63 10, XXVII | are no longer. And still I measure, and I confidently answer - 64 10, XXVII | ended. Therefore I do not measure them, for they do not exist 65 10, XXVII | not exist any more. But I measure something in my memory which 66 10, XXVII | O mind of mine, that I measure the periods of time. Do 67 10, XXVII | In you, as I have said, I measure the periods of time. I measure 68 10, XXVII | measure the periods of time. I measure as time present the impression 69 10, XXVII | have passed by - I do not measure the things themselves which 70 10, XXVII | impression on you. This is what I measure when I measure periods of 71 10, XXVII | is what I measure when I measure periods of time. Either, 72 10, XXVII | of time or else I do not measure time at all.~What are we 73 10, XXVII | What are we doing when we measure silence, and say that this 74 10, XXVII | project our thought to the measure of a sound, as if it were 75 11, III(460)| here, "the depths beyond measure."~ 76 12, VIII | more strongly. I cannot measure my love so that I may come 77 12, XIX | not to be hid under a peck measure.607 He to whom you cleave


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