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Full Idea
It is impossible that movement should either come-to-be or be destroyed. The same can be said for time itself, since it is not even possible for there to be an earlier and a later if time does not exist.
Gist of Idea
It is hard to see how either time or movement could come into existence or be destroyed
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1071b06)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.369
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| 1526 | Almost everyone except Plato thinks that time could not have been generated [Plato, by Aristotle] |
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