Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio.
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, XI, 14 (c. 397).
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If analysis is to have a foundation, then it must reach that which cannot be analyzed. One should not be mystified by the irreducibility of time. If it could somehow be reduced, someone would want to discuss still further reduction.