"There is no "really" about time. If it feels long, it is long, if it feels short, then it is short, but no one knows how long or how short it really is. A minute is so long... that is, it takes as long as the second hand goes around once... actually the hand going around is the movement, spatial movement, right? Stop, let's be careful! So you measure time with space. But it's like measuring space with time... From Hamburg to Davos, it takes twenty hours, yes, by train. But on foot... how long does it take on foot? In your mind? In my mind for a split second.
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Thomas MannAll Translations
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There is no "really" about time. If it feels long, it is long, if it feels short, then it is short, but no one knows how long or how short it really is. A minute is so long... that is, it takes as long as the second hand goes around once... actually the hand going around is the movement, spatial movement, right? Stop, let's be careful! So you measure time with space. But it's like measuring space with time... From Hamburg to Davos, it takes twenty hours, yes, by train. But on foot... how long does it take on foot? In your mind? In my mind for a split second.
""Az időnél nincs "voltaképpen". Ha hosszúnak érzed, hosszú, ha rövidnek érzed, akkor rövid, de hogy igazából milyen hosszú vagy milyen rövid, azt nem tudja senki. Egy perc olyan hosszú... vagyis annyi ideig tart, amíg a másodpercmutató egyszer körbejár... ténylegesen a mutató körbejárása, az a mozgás, térbeli mozgás ugyebár? Megállj, vigyázzunk! Az időt tehát térrel méred. De hisz ez olyan, mintha a teret az idővel akarnánk mérni... Hamburgtól Davosig húsz óra, igen, vasúton. De gyalog... gyalog meddig tart? Hát gondolatban? Gondolatban egy másodperc töredékéig."